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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

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... 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.

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

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

This trilogy of short novels, taken as a whole, recounts the young narrator's early life up to his university days, each episode told through the perceptions, points of view and emotions felt by the protagonist at the time. Based on Tolstoy's own life and experiences, this fictionalized... Read Full Overview

This semi-autobiographical trilogy traces the emotional and intellectual growth of a young boy as he navigates through the early stages of life, from childhood innocence to the confusion of adolescence and early adulthood. Tolstoy masterfully captures the complexities of family... 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.

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