Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth [With Smart ATOC]

by Leo Tolstoy, Charles James Hogarth (Translator)

Overview

Childhood (Russian: Детство, Detstvo, 1852), Boyhood (Russian: Отрочество, Otrochestvo, 1854), and Youth (Russian: Юность [Yunost'], 1856) are novels Leo Tolstoy's quasi-autobiographical trilogy first published in the Russian literary journal "Sovremennik".

"Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time than when the two best virtues -- innocent joy and the boundless desire for love -- were the only motives in life?"

(From Wikipedia)

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940012802644
Publisher:	Ladislav Deczi
Publication date:	06/28/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	817
File size:	612 KB

About the Author

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists.

[from Wikipedia]

Date of Birth:

September 9, 1828

Date of Death:

November 20, 1910

Place of Birth:

Tula Province, Russia

Place of Death:

Astapovo, Russia

Education:

Privately educated by French and German tutors; attended the University of Kazan, 1844-47