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Download or read book Youth written by Leo Tolstoy and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth (1856) is an autobiographical novel by Leo Tolstoy and is the third in his trilogy of novels that begins with Childhood and Boyhood. It is the story of the son of wealthy landlord who is slow in realising the differences and class distinctions betwe...

Download or read book Boyhood Illustrated written by Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boyhood is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and followed by Youth. The novel was first published in the Russian literary journal Sovremennik in 1854. Later in life, Tolstoy expressed his unhappiness with the book.

Download or read book Boyhood written by Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1850s Tolstoy also began his literary career with an autobiographical trilogy: Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth. This, the second novel in the trilogy, tells of the early part of his life, when he was living happily with his family in the countryside. It also portrays his first love affair with Sonya and the tragic incident of his mother's death.

Download or read book Childhood Boyhood and Youth written by Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 12th of August, 18- (just three days after my tenth birthday, when I had been given such wonderful presents), I was awakened at seven o'clock in the morning by Karl Ivanitch slapping the wall close to my head with a fly-flap made of sugar paper and a stick. He did this so roughly that he hit the image of my patron saint suspended to the oaken back of my bed, and the dead fly fell down on my curls. I peeped out from under the coverlet, steadied the still shaking image with my hand, flicked the dead fly on to the floor, and gazed at Karl Ivanitch with sleepy, wrathful eyes. He, in a parti-coloured wadded dressing-gown fastened about the waist with a wide belt of the same material, a red knitted cap adorned with a tassel, and soft slippers of goat skin, went on walking round the walls and taking aim at, and slapping, flies. "Suppose," I thought to myself, "that I am only a small boy, yet why should he disturb me? Why does he not go killing flies around Woloda's bed? No; Woloda is older than I, and I am the youngest of the family, so he torments me. That is what he thinks of all day long-how to tease me. He knows very well that he has woken me up and frightened me, but he pretends not to notice it. Disgusting brute! And his dressing-gown and cap and tassel too-they are all of them disgusting." While I was thus inwardly venting my wrath upon Karl Ivanitch, he had passed to his own bedstead, looked at his watch (which hung suspended in a little shoe sewn with bugles), and deposited the fly-flap on a nail, then, evidently in the most cheerful mood possible, he turned round to us. - Taken from "Childhood, Boyhood and Youth" written by Leo Tolstoy

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