A Russian Schoolboy

by Sergei Aksakov, James Duff Duff, Carl Van Doren Sergei Aksakov, J. D. Duff

Book Overview

"The happiness of childhood is the Golden Age, and the recollection of it has power to move the old man's heart with pleasure and with pain. Happy the man who once possessed it and is able to recall the memory of it in later years "

Thus Sergei Aksakov recalls the "magic world" of youth, as he portrays the delights and tumults of Russian country life at the turn of the 18th century.

In 1856 at the age of 64, Aksakov sat down to write...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158988051X
• ISBN13: 9781589880511
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Paul Dry Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"