Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (Modern Library) (Modern Library Classics) - Softcover

L.N. Tolstoy; Translated By Michael Scammell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375759441 ISBN 13: 9780375759444

Publisher: Modern Library Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Begun in 1851, when Tolstoy was twenty-three and serving as a cadet in the Russian army, Childhood, the first part of Tolstoy s first novel, won immediate praise from Turgenev and others, and marked Tolstoy s emergence as a major writer. Its originality was striking, as Tolstoy sought to communicate with great immediacy the poetry of childhood the intense emotions, confusions, and fears attendant upon a young boy, Nikolenka, as he grows up. In the years following, Boyhood and Youth appeared (a fourth volume was planned but never executed), each replete with psychological and philosophical subtleties hitherto unknown in Russian literature. In Scammell s resplendent translation, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth remains one of Tolstoy s major works.Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as The modern Library of the world s Best Books . Featuring introductions by leading writers, stunning translations, scholarly endnotes and reading group guides. Production values emphasize superior quality and readability. Competitive prices, coupled with exciting cover design make these an ideal gift to be cherished by the avid reader.

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Review:

"No one has ever excelled Tolstoy in expressing the specific flavour, the exact quality of a feeling." --Isaiah Berlin

From the Back Cover:

We are blessed as readers to have, alongside the mature writer of Anna Karenina and War and Peace, and the revolutionary mystic of the later years, the young Tolstoy who wrote these elegiac tales, the first of which was published in 1852, when he was only twenty-three. In their sensitivity to nature and their evocations of fugitive emotions, they reveal his genius in all its untroubled early splendor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Library Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375759441
• ISBN 13: 9780375759444
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464