Childhood, boyhood, youth / Leo Tolstoy; translated by Dora O'Brien

By:

Tolstoy, Leo graf, 1828-1910 [author]

Contributor(s):

O'Brien, Dora [translator]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Publication details: London : Alma Classics, 2016Description: 364 pages ; illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:

9781847496003

Uniform titles:

Detstvo, otrochestvo i i︠u︡nostʹ English

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LOC classification:

PG3366 .D5

Summary: 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 account of a young man growing into the world combines anecdote with frank personal assessment and philosophical extrapolation, as the author’s Stendhalian take on the confessional genre confronts and blurs the notions of reality and imagination. Tolstoy’s first published work, which launched him on a successful writing career, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth – besides offering an early display of his storytelling and stylistic abilities – provides the reader with invaluable insight into the personal and literary development of one of the greatest writers of all time.

List(s) this item appears in: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH | CLASSICS

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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 account of a young man growing into the world combines anecdote with frank personal assessment and philosophical extrapolation, as the author’s Stendhalian take on the confessional genre confronts and blurs the notions of reality and imagination.

Tolstoy’s first published work, which launched him on a successful writing career, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth – besides offering an early display of his storytelling and stylistic abilities – provides the reader with invaluable insight into the personal and literary development of one of the greatest writers of all time.