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Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (riverrun editions)

Leo Tolstoy
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  • ISBN 9781787479302
  • Weight: 320g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Nov 2020
  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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'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.
About Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) is regarded as one of the greatest Russian writers of all time. He received multiple nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize. He is best known for the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays. Andrew O'Hagan is one of his generation's most exciting and most serious chroniclers of contemporary Britain. Following two previous nominations, his latest novel, The Illuminations, has been longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. He was voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He lives in London.

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