The Death of Ivan Ilych

A short story published as a Penguin 60s Classic.

This story is adorned with masses of four and five star reviews.

I found it hard work to keep up my motivation to finish this. Admittedly it is outside of my normal reading genre, and is relatively philosophical in its approach to life and death, relationships and family. Philosophical analysis is so not my thing, nor high literature - I am far to basic in my thinking and entertainments.

On the basis of this, I don't think I will ever be brave enough to attempt Anna Karenina or War and Peace.