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Original Translation of Вернутся ли когда-нибудь та свежесть, беззаботность, потребность любви и сила веры, которыми обладаешь в детстве? Какое время может быть лучше того, когда две лучшие добродетели — невинная веселость и беспредельная потребность любви — были единственными побуждениями в жизни?
388: 288:"Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time than when the two best virtues -- innocent joy and the boundless desire for love -- were the only motives in life?" 266:. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success. It earned Tolstoy notice from other Russian novelists including 1225: 1361: 1327: 1059: 1141: 1356: 1320: 573: 1371: 421: 327: 179: 32: 702: 1242: 653: 1313: 57: 1001: 918: 737: 786: 688: 1351: 993: 835: 758: 206: 1247: 985: 821: 695: 1346: 1132: 884: 597: 506: 276:
explores the inner life of a young boy, Nikolenka. It is one of the books in Russian writing to explore an
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style, mixing fact, fiction, and emotions to render the moods and reactions of the narrator.
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This article is about the 1852 novel by Leo Tolstoy. For the 1998 novel by André Alexis, see
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It is the first in a series of three novels, followed by
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Childhood (Alexis novel)

Leo Tolstoy
Sovremennik
ISBN
978-1-84749-142-8
Boyhood
pre-reform Russian
romanized
first published novel
Leo Tolstoy
The Contemporary
Boyhood
Youth
Ivan Turgenev
expressionistic
Leo Tolstoy bibliography
ISBN
978-1-84749-142-8
Childhood
Project Gutenberg
C. J. Hogarth
Full text of Childhood in the original Russian
Childhood
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