{"product_id":"childhood-boyhood-and-youth-introduction-by-a-n-wilson-9780679405788","title":"Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth: Introduction by A. N. Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy \u003ci\u003eChildhood, Boyhood, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eYouth, \u003c\/i\u003ewas written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that would come to fruition in his later masterpieces. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Chronicling the experiences of a wealthy landowner's son as he grows up and becomes aware of the world and his place in it, these three short novels were only loosely inspired by Tolstoy's own memories. In old age he condemned the work as \"an awkward mixture of fact and fiction,\" but the imaginative powers that enabled him to capture so vividly the universal emotions and sensations of childhood have enthralled generations of readers. We are blessed to have, alongside the mature writer of \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/i\u003e and the revolutionary mystic of the later years, the young Tolstoy who wrote these elegiac tales. In their sensitivity to nature and their evocations of fugitive feelings, they reveal his genius in all its untroubled early splendor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Scammell\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eSolzhenitsyn: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e, and has translated many Russian works, including Dostoevsky's \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Defense\u003c\/i\u003e by Nabokov. He teaches nonfiction writing and translation at Colum-bia University and is working on a biography of Arthur Koestler.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50556316025106,"sku":"9780679405788","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_23471294-d470-4051-98e9-5aaa4680dc62.jpg?v=1731751754","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/childhood-boyhood-and-youth-introduction-by-a-n-wilson-9780679405788","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}