Childhood (novel)
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Childhood (Детство [Detstvo]; 1852) is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy. They are the works that launched his writing career. These books earned him instant acclaim. This book describes the major physiological decisions of boyhood that all boys experience.
Excerpt
"Do in after life the freshness and light-heartedness, the craving for love and for strength of faith, ever return which we experience in our childhood's years? What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues--innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection--are our sole objects of pursuit?"
External link
- Full text of Childhood (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2142) from Project Gutenberg
- Full text of Childhood in the original Russian (http://ilibrary.ru/text/1179/p.1/)