Childhood

Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature. Childhood is an exploration of the inner life of a young boy, Nikolenka, and one of the books in Russian writing to explore an expressionistic style, mixing fact, fiction and emotions to render the moods and reactions of the narrator.

By : Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), translated by Charles James Hogarth (1869 - 1945)

01 - I. The Tutor, Karl Ivanitch 02 - II. Mamma 03 - III. Papa 04 - IV. Lessons 05 - V. The Idiot 06 - VI. Preparations for the Chase 07 - VII. The Hunt 08 - VIII. We Play Games 09 - IX. A First Essay in Love 10 - X. The Sort of Man My Father Was 11 - XI. In the Drawing-room and the Study 12 - XII. Grisha 13 - XIII. Natalya Savishna 14 - XIV. The Parting 15 - XV. Childhood 16 - XVI. Verse-Making 17 - XVII. The Princess Kornakoff 18 - XVIII. Prince Ivan Ivanovitch 19 - XIX. The Iwins 20 - XX. Preparations for the Party 21 - XXI. Before the Mazurka 22 - XXII. The Mazurka 23 - XXIII. After the Mazurka 24 - XXIV. In Bed 25 - XXV. The Letter 26 - XXVI. What Awaited Us at the Country-house 27 - XXVII. Grief 28 - XXVIII. Sad Recollections