Boyhood

Complete and unabridged, with 21 full-page plates by Vasily Perov, Vasily Andreevich Tropinin and Valentin Serov. The second panel of the trilogy: a boy of fourteen at the awkward age, jealous, ashamed of his hands, in love with a footman's opinion of him, watching his family from a corner. Tolstoy wrote it at twenty-six, before Sevastopol; the astonishing thing is not the memory but the refusal t...