Childhood : volume one of the autobiographical trilogy / Leo Tolstoy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tolstoy, Leo, author.

Series:

Autobiographical trilogy series ; Vol. 01.

Autobiographical trilogy series ; 01

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Russian.

Russia--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (94 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Open Road Integrated Media, 2017.

Summary:

Tolstoy's first published novel and the beginning of his Autobiographical Trilogy. Written when he was just twenty-three years old and stationed at a remote army outpost in the Caucasus Mountains, Childhood won Leo Tolstoy immediate fame and critical praise years before works like War and Peace and Anna Karenina would bring him to the forefront of Russian literature. It is the story of the ten-year-old son of a wealthy Russian landowner in the mid-1800s, as told by the child himself. Not a mere chronicle of events and characters, the novel is an intense study of the boy's inner life and his reactions to the world around him. With an intricacy of thought and substance, Tolstoy describes the everyday thoughts of a child-innocent and mischievous, bold and afraid, and curious above all. Childhood, followed by Boyhood and Youth, is the first part of Tolstoy's semiautobiographical series, originally planned as a quartet tentatively called the "Four Epochs of Growth." The completed works together form a remarkable expression of the great Russian novelist's early voice and vision, which would ultimately make him one of the most renowned and revered authors in literary history. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Contents:

Intro

Childhood

I - THE TUTOR, KARL IVANITCH

II - MAMMA

III - PAPA

IV - LESSONS

V - THE IDIOT

VI - PREPARATIONS FOR THE CHASE

VII - THE HUNT

VIII - WE PLAY GAMES

IX - A FIRST ESSAY IN LOVE

X - THE SORT OF MAN MY FATHER WAS

XI - IN THE DRAWING-ROOM AND THE STUDY

XII - GRISHA

XIII - NATALIA SAVISHNA

XIV - THE PARTING

XV - CHILDHOOD

XVI - VERSE-MAKING

XVII - THE PRINCESS KORNAKOFF

XVIII - PRINCE IVAN IVANOVITCH

XIX - THE IWINS

XX - PREPARATIONS FOR THE PARTY

XXI - BEFORE THE MAZURKA

XXII - THE MAZURKA

XXIII - AFTER THE MAZURKA

XXIV - IN BED

XXV - THE LETTER

XXVI - WHAT AWAITED US AT THE COUNTRY-HOUSE

XXVII - GRIEF

XXVIII - SAD RECOLLECTIONS

Preview: Youth

Copyright.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781504048200

1504048202

OCLC:

1001352721