Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787479293
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (874 download)
Book Synopsis Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (riverrun editions) by : Leo Tolstoy
Download or read book Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (riverrun editions) written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''The beautiful illusion, when reading Tolstoy, is that one is looking directly at the world, as opposed to a depiction'' Andrew O''Hagan from his preface to Childhood, Boyhood and Youth Published in 1852, when he was just twenty-four, Childhood was Tolstoy''s first published work, and the first of a trilogy of stories that evoke the upbringing and traditional education of a Russian aristocrat in a world that vanished with the revolution. In this self-portrait, narrated by its protagonist Nikólya, the young Tolstoy captured the textures of adolescence with a psychological insight and subtlety of analysis that look forward to his mature achievements; while his matchless objectivity - summoning the smells, sights and sounds of early childhood - is already fully present in these pages. The riverrun edition reissues the translation of Louise and Aylmer Maude, whose influential versions of Tolstoy first brought his work to a wide readership in English.