Three Deaths (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- First Published: 1859
- Type of Plot: Symbolist
- Time of Work: The nineteenth century
- Setting: Russia
- Principal Characters: Marya Dmitriyevna, Vasily Dmitrich, Edward Ivanovich, Matryosha, Uncle Fyodor, Seryoga, Nastasya
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: God, Upper classes, Death or dying, Lower classes
- Locales: Russia
The Story
In the story's four numbered sections are described the actions of two sets of characters, one from the upper class and one from the lower. Each set revolves around a character dying from consumption: Marya Dmitriyevna, attempting to flee the harsh Russian winter to reach the warm Italian climate in the hope of curing her illness, and Uncle Fyodor, lying in the last stages of his illness in the carriage drivers’ quarters at a post station. The two sets of characters intersect in sections 1 and 2 of the story, when the two carriages of the small upper-class entourage...
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