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Childhood, Boyhood And Youth
Hardback
Main Details
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Childhood, Boyhood And Youth
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Leo Tolstoy
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Introduction by A.N. Wilson
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Translated by C J Hogarth
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Translated by Nigel J Cooper
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Series | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:416 | Dimensions(mm): Height 211,Width 135 |
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Category/Genre | Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781857150131
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Classifications | Dewey:891.733 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Everyman
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Imprint |
Everyman's Library
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Publication Date |
26 September 1991 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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.
Author Biography
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. A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.
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