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  • Published: 2 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241957066
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464
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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth




A superb new translation by Judson Rosengrant of Tolstoy's semi-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 of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and colour. Evident too in its brilliant account of a young person's emerging awareness of the world and of his place within it are many of the stances, techniques and themes that would come to full flower in the immortal War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and in the other great works of Tolstoy's maturity.

  • Published: 2 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241957066
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464
Categories:

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The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
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On Sparta
Venus in Furs
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Military Dispatches

About the author

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910.

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