Tolstoy: Childhood (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781853992940)

Childhood (Detstvo) appeared in 1852 and was Lev Tolstoy's first published work. Together with Boyhood (Otrochestvo) and Youth (Iunost') it forms a trilogy which, though fictional, is deeply rooted in Tolstoy's autobiography. As the first-person narrator grows out of childish innocence, he develops a growing awareness of the degree of deception inherent in adult behaviour and the extent to which he himself is increasingly capable of deception. Remarkable in its own right for its clear-sighted portrayal of the child's world, the work also contains in embryo themes which dominate Tolstoy's nature work. These are detailed in the introduction to this edition, which also contains full notes and a vocabulary.

Author: Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy,Michael Pursglove,L. N. Tolstoy
ISBN-10: 1853992941
ISBN-13: 9781853992940
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1998
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.44w x 0.36d