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Childhood, Boyhood and Youth
Leo Tolstoy
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Description for Childhood, Boyhood and Youth
Hardcover. Featuring peasants and soldiers, servants and aristocrats, this book portrays the whole world of Tolstoy's later fiction appears before us here in glowing colours. Translator(s): Cooper, N.; Hogarth, C. J. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 136 x 28. Weight in Grams: 520.
Tolstoy's lightly fictionalized account of his own early experience ranks with Turgenev's Sportsman's Notebook as a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Russian pastoral life. Peasants and soldiers, servants and aristocrats: the whole world of Tolstoy's later fiction appears before us here in glowing colours, painted with that vivid freshness and sharp observation which were to become the mature writer's hallmarks.
Tolstoy's lightly fictionalized account of his own early experience ranks with Turgenev's Sportsman's Notebook as a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Russian pastoral life. Peasants and soldiers, servants and aristocrats: the whole world of Tolstoy's later fiction appears before us here in glowing colours, painted with that vivid freshness and sharp observation which were to become the mature writer's hallmarks.
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
314
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857150131
SKU
V9781857150131
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99-99
About Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910.
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