Childhood, Boyhood, Youth; The Incursion
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1904.
Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". viii, 497pp. Mild wear to purple cloth over boards with light rubbing, toning, and spots of soiling to covers, corners, and edges. Cloth is beginning to fray at corners and at head and tail of spine. Sunning to spine. Top edge gilt. Faint toning to gutters of endpapers. Occasional inked and penciled notation to pages. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an ‘awkward mixture of fact and fiction’, generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and color. Evident too in its brilliant account of a young person’s emerging awareness of the world and of his place within it are many of the stances, techniques and themes that would come to full flower in the immortal War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and in the other great works of Tolstoy’s maturity.(Publisher). Good. Item #11058
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