Childhood

by Leo Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Lev Tolstoy

Book Overview

On the 12th of August, 18- (just three days after my tenth birthday, when I had been given such wonderful presents), I was awakened at seven o'clock in the morning by Karl Ivanitch slapping the wall close to my head with a fly-flap made of sugar paper and a stick. He did this so roughly that he hit the image of my patron saint suspended to the oaken back of my bed, and the dead fly fell down on my curls. I peeped out from under the coverlet, steadied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1514182602
• ISBN13: 9781514182604
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"