# Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (riverrun editions)

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- Authors: [Lev Tolstoi](https://www.bookquiver.com/leo-tolstoy)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2020-11-12

## Description

'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.

## Editions

### Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (riverrun editions)

- Publisher: riverrun
- ISBN: 978-17-8747-930-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2020-11-12
- Language: en_GB

### Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (riverrun editions)

- Publisher: riverrun
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-17-8747-929-6
- Published: 2020-11-12
- Language: en_GB