Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo

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9780140441390: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (Penguin Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0140441395 ISBN 13: 9780140441390

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1964

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The artistic work of Leo Tolstoy has been described as 'nothing less than one tremendous diary kept for over fifty years'. This particular 'diary' begins with Tolstoy's first published work, "Childhood", which was written when he was only twenty-three. A semi-autobiographical work, it recounts two days in the childhood of ten-year-old Nikolai Irtenev, recreating vivid impressions of people, place and events with the exuberant perspective of a child enriched by the ironic retrospective understanding of an adult. "Boyhood and Youth" soon followed, and Tolstoy was launched on the literary career that would bring him immortality.

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We are blessed as readers to have, alongside the mature writer of Anna Karenina and War and Peace, and the revolutionary mystic of the later years, the young Tolstoy who wrote these elegiac tales, the first of which was published in 1852, when he was only twenty-three. In their sensitivity to nature and their evocations of fugitive emotions, they reveal his genius in all its untroubled early splendor.

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Introduction by A. N. Wilson; Translation by C. J. Hogarth

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