Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth - (Everyman's Library Classics) by Leo Tolstoy (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy <i>Childhood, Boyhood, </i>and <i>Youth, </i>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. <p/> 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 <i>Anna Karenina </i>and <i>War and Peace</i> 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. <p/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>We are blessed as readers 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, the first of which was published in 1852, when he was only twenty-three. In their sensitivity to nature and their evocations of fugitive emotions, they reveal his genius in all its untroubled early splendor.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"No one has ever excelled Tolstoy in expressing the specific flavour, the exact quality of a feeling." --<b>Isaiah Berlin </b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Michael Scammell</b> is the author of <i>Solzhenitsyn: A Biography</i>, and has translated many Russian works, including Dostoevsky's <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, and <i>The Gift</i> and <i>The Defense</i> 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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