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Begun in 1851, when Tolstoy was twenty-three and serving as a cadet in the Russian army, Childhood , the first part of Tolstoy’s first novel, won immediate praise from Turgenev and others, and marked Tolstoy’s emergence as a major writer. Its originality was striking, as Tolstoy sought to... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Volodya: Add a description of this character.
- Karl Ivanych
- Dmitri
- Katya
- Mimi
- Lyuba
- Nikolai
- Sonya
- Dubkov
- Natalya Savishna
- Lyubov Sergeyevna
- Avdotya Vassilyevna
- Masha
- Zukhin
- Ivan Ivanych
- Ivan Yakovlevich
- Sophia Ivanovna
- Grisha
- Varya
- Ikonin
- Natalya Savislma
- Ivins
- Semeonov
- Operov
- Seriozha
- Nekhlyudov
- Marya Ivanovna
- Filip
- Gasha
- Madame Valakhina
- Ilinka Grap
- Piotr Vassilyevich
- Johann
- Komakova
- Gott
- Nicolas
- Natasha
- Kolpikov
- Etienne
- Kuzma
- Herr Frost
- Milka
- Bezobedov
- Natalya Nikolayevna
First Sentence edit
On the 12th of August 18-, exactly three days after my tenth birthday, for which I had received such wonderful presents, Karl Ivanych woke me at seven in the morning by hitting at a fly just over my head with a flap made of sugar-bag paper fastened to a stick.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 37 of 10 in Classics and Contemporaries. (edition-based publisher list)
This book is in School Library (Школьная Библиотека). (edition-based publisher list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Leo Tolstoy (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 891.733
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