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Childhood
Translated by C. J. Hogarth.
The first novel in Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy:
Childhood (1852), Boyhood (1854), and Youth (1856).
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- I. The Tutor, Karl Ivanitch
- II. Mamma
- III. Papa
- IV. Lessons
- V. The Idiot
- VI. Preparations for the Chase
- VII. The Hunt
- VIII. We Play Games
- IX. A First Essay in Love
- X. The Sort of Man My Father Was
- XI. In the Drawing-Room and the Study
- XII. Grisha
- XIII. Natalia Savishna
- XIV. The Parting
- XV. Childhood
- XVI. Verse-Making
- XVII. The Princess Kornakoff
- XVIII. Prince Ivan Ivanovitch
- XIX. The Iwins
- XX. Preparations for the Party
- XXI. Before the Mazurka
- XXII. The Mazurka
- XXIII. After the Mazurka
- XXIV. In Bed
- XXV. The Letter
- XXVI. What Awaited Us at the Country-House
- XXVII. Grief
- XXVIII. Sad Recollections
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Childhood
Second part of the triology tells us a story after his mothers death when he left for Moskva. He makes an intelectual progress, he is starting to thinking about religion, life, life after life; he actually becomes a philosopher. He is disapointed in questions of love, feeling abandoned from everybody. His grandmother dies and he finds his first friend; Nehlyudov,a man which will have a great effect on his youth and his whole life... Much, much better then the first part, with a lot of Tolstoy's philosophy, worth to read.
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