Ep. 11 - Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Ralston College Podcast
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Yvonne Ileic and the Society, Bear My Burden
Yvonne Ileic's chief pleasure was giving little dinners to which he invited men and women of good social position. Once they even gave a dance, but it led to a violent quarrel with his wife about the cakes and sweets. He acknowledged that whatever disagreeable incident happened in his life, the pleasure that beamed like a ray of light above everything else was bridge. The pleasures connected with his work were pleasures of ambition. His social pleasures were those of vanity.
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