A complacent judge confronts his own terror, isolation, and the falseness of his life as he slowly dies. Tolstoy's short novel is a piercing meditation on mortality and the meaning of a life lived by mere convention.
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1886 · Book · Public Domain
A complacent judge confronts his own terror, isolation, and the falseness of his life as he slowly dies. Tolstoy's short novel is a piercing meditation on mortality and the meaning of a life lived by mere convention.