Youth

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoi and Alexey Venetsianov. The third part of Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy: Moscow University, a boy of sixteen who has decided to become perfect, the rules he writes in a notebook, his first drunk, his first calls on society, and the exam he fails. Tolstoy wrote it in his twenties, just back from Sevastopol; the h...