Childhood

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9781775419891

Widely regarded as one of the most talented novelists the world has ever produced, Leo Tolstoy began his work in long-form fiction with a series of three novels based loosely on his own life experiences. In Childhood, Tolstoy recounts the innocent joys of his early life and the gradual progression toward a more cynical, mature adult view of the world -- a process that the author regards as tragic.

Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• 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