Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth: Introduction by A. N. Wilson

Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in...
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Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth: Introduction by A. N. Wilson by Tolstoy, Leo

Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth: Introduction by A. N. Wilson

$60.78

Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth: Introduction by A. N. Wilson

$60.78
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that would come to fruition in his later masterpieces.

Chronicling the experiences of a wealthy landowner's son as he grows up and becomes aware of the world and his place in it, these three short novels were only loosely inspired by Tolstoy's own memories. In old age he condemned the work as "an awkward mixture of fact and fiction," but the imaginative powers that enabled him to capture so vividly the universal emotions and sensations of childhood have enthralled generations of readers. We are blessed 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. In their sensitivity to nature and their evocations of fugitive feelings, they reveal his genius in all its untroubled early splendor.



Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 10/15/1991
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.33h x 5.28w x 1.15d
ISBN: 9780679405788

About the Author
Michael Scammell is the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, and has translated many Russian works, including Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, and The Gift and The Defense by Nabokov. He teaches nonfiction writing and translation at Colum-bia University and is working on a biography of Arthur Koestler.

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