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Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Category: Book
List Price: £9.67
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 788078
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Reissue
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 067940578X
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.733
EAN: 9780679405788
ASIN: 067940578X
Publication Date: September 1991
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: dispatched from London England next day, A BRAND NEW COPY, The World's Classics edition
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A young aristocrat November 14, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This semi-autobiographical youth memories are characteristic for the life of a young member of the Russian tsarist high society.
The main character wants to be a young man `comme il faut': `The comme il faut people I respected and considered worthy of being on terms of equality with me; the comme il ne faut pas I pretended to despise but in reality hated. The lower classes did not exist for me, I despised them completely.'
This stands in sharp contrast with: `His tendency of ecstatic adoration of the ideal virtue and a conviction that the purpose of man's life is continually to perfect himself. At that time it seemed very possible to improve all men, to destroy all the vices and miseries of mankind.'
But as the young man states himself: `noble words seldom go with noble deeds.'
His life is not without problems: his father, who loses all credit with his son, is a big gambler and doesn't give a damn for his estate. His mother adores her husband and forgives him everything. But she dies when the main character is still young. He receives an aristocratic education and, unsurprisingly, his life goes on very smoothly with `dancing' problems, adolescent loves and student exams.
This book contains beautiful pictures of the Russian countryside and lively childhood memories, but it is rather innocent stuff.
Only for Tolstoy fans.
For a picture of the lower classes (still not the `people of the abyss'), I recommend Maksim Gorky's `My Childhood'.
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