Shelfology Book Pairing

Large Print

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels.

Leo Tolstoy

by Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilych Leo Tolstoy Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude Russian Classics The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. "Usually classed among the best examples of the novella", The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells the story of a high-court judge, and his sufferings and death from a terminal illness in 19th-century Russia.