Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (riverrun editions)
$19.54
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2021
Summary
‘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, narrat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787479302 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787479307 |
| Author: | Leo Tolstoy, Andrew O'Hagan |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 32mm |
| Series: | riverrun editions |
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About The Author
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
Leo Tolstoy 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
Andrew O’Hagan is a Booker Prize shortlisted novelist and journalist and author of Be Near Me and Mayflies.
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