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Childhood, boyhood, youth

L.N. Tolstoy ; translated and with an introduction by Rosemary Edmonds

(Penguin classics)

Penguin, 1964

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Description

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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  • NCID
    BA18613182
  • ISBN
    • 0140441395
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    rus
  • Place of Publication
    Harmondsworth
  • Pages/Volumes
    319 p.
  • Size
    18 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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