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I recommend The Death of Ivan Ilyich. It's a short but thought provoking book, for me anyway.

What self-respecting literature enthusiast hasn't heard of Tolstoy?

I've read some of Tolstoy's stuff, but I'd not heard of this particular work. Wasn't that the question, about works, not authors?

Heard if him, impossible. Any Seinfeld fan has heard of him.

Read him? The numbers start to thin out.