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A new, definitive translation of Tolstoy's early autobiographical trilogy

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood; Boyhood; Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations... Read Full Overview

Tolstoy's first published work, completed in 1856, "Childhood, Boyhood, Youth" recounts his early life up to his university days. These are not memoirs in the strict sense of the word, as the author's Stendhalian take on the autobiographical genre confronts and blurs the notions... Read Full Overview

Tolstoy's first published work, completed in 1856, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth recounts his early life up to his university days. These are not memoirs in the strict sense of the word, as the author's Stendhalian take on the autobiographical genre confronts and blurs the notions... Read Full Overview

In this trilogy of autobiographical novels Leo Tolstoy's first published works are gathered together. An instant success, one which would launch Tolstoy's distinguished career, "Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth", was first published from 1852 to 1856. In these works the early... Read Full Overview

Childhood, Boyhood, Youth is a semi-autobiographical novel by the renowned Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The book is divided into three parts, each of which chronicles a different stage in the life of its protagonist, Nikolenka Irtenev. The first part, Childhood, follows Nikolenka's... Read Full Overview

Classic novels by Leo Tolstoy in Russian.V pervyj tom Sobranija sochinenij L. N. Tolstogo vhodjat rannie hudozhestvennye proizvedenija pisatelja - trilogija ?Detstvo?, ?Otrochestvo?, ?Junost'?. V razdele ?Nezakonchennoe. Nabroski? pechatajutsja nezavershennye otryvki ?Istorija... Read Full Overview

Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who earned fame and global renown for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Writing during the late 19th century, Tolstoy lived during a literary period in which Realism flourished, and today his two... Read Full Overview

Presents the impressions of people, place and events with the exuberant perspective of a child enriched by the ironic retrospective understanding of an adult.

Childhood, Boyhood, And Youth: Translated With An Introduction By C. J. Hogarth This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview