{"product_id":"9781787479302","title":"Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (riverrun editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Tolstoy, Leo, O'Hagan, Andrew, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 12\/11\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 464 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: riverrun,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Quercus Publishing,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781787479302\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e'The beautiful illusion, when reading Tolstoy, is that one is looking directly at the world, as opposed to a depiction' Andrew O'Hagan from his preface to Childhood, Boyhood and Youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1852, when he was just twenty-four, Childhood was Tolstoy's first published work, and the first of a trilogy of stories that evoke the upbringing and traditional education of a Russian aristocrat in a world that vanished with the revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this self-portrait, narrated by its protagonist Nikolya, the young Tolstoy captured the textures of adolescence with a psychological insight and subtlety of analysis that look forward to his mature achievements; while his matchless objectivity - summoning the smells, sights and sounds of early childhood - is already fully present in these pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe riverrun edition reissues the translation of Louise and Aylmer Maude, whose influential versions of Tolstoy first brought his work to a wide readership in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37296331096217,"sku":"9781787479302","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781787479302.jpg?v=1606327147","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781787479302","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}