Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Childhood, Boyhood, Youth Ount tolstoi is unquestionably one of the most interesting personalities of the period. Any thing, therefore, which can add to our knowledge of him as a man, cannot fail to be welcome to those who have already made his acquaintance through his writ ings on religion, and through those characters in his novels which reflect himself. These Memoirs, which in the Russian bear no common title, are of particular interest, since they show that many of the author's ideas of thirty years ago were precisely similar to those which he is putting in practice to-day in his own person. There are also points which every one will recognize as having been true of himself at the ages herein dealt with. It is to be regretted that the original plan has not been carried out. This comprised a great novel, founded on the reminiscences and traditions of his family. The first instalment, Childhood, was writ ten while he was in the Caucasus, and published in 1852 in the Contemporary The last, Youth, was written after the conclusion of the Cri mean War, in 1855, Boyhood having preceded it. Childhood was one of the first things he wrote; his Cossacks, which Turgeneff admired extremely, hav ing been written about the same time, though it was not printed until long afterward. The most important of his other writings are already before the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.