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Boyhood

Leo Tolstoy

Second part of the autobiographical trilogy. After his mother's death Nikolenka settles in Moscow and discovers shame, loneliness, resentment and the pleasure of abstract ideas; it ends with the beginning of his friendship with Dmitri Nekhlyudov. Published in The Contemporary in 1854.

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Translated by C. J. Hogarth · 27 chapters · 2 h reading

  1. 1I. A SLOW JOURNEY10′
  2. 2II. THE THUNDERSTORM7′
  3. 3III. A NEW POINT OF VIEW6′
  4. 4IV. IN MOSCOW2′
  5. 5V. MY ELDER BROTHER5′
  6. 6VI. MASHA3′
  7. 7VII. SMALL SHOT5′
  8. 8VIII. KARL IVANITCH’S HISTORY5′
  9. 9IX. CONTINUATION OF KARL’S NARRATIVE5′
  10. 10X. CONCLUSION OF KARL’S NARRATIVE4′
  11. 11XI. ONE MARK ONLY6′
  12. 12XII. THE KEY3′
  13. 13XIII. THE TRAITRESS3′
  14. 14XIV. THE RETRIBUTION4′
  15. 15XV. DREAMS7′
  16. 16XVI. “KEEP ON GRINDING, AND YOU’LL HAVE FLOUR”6′
  17. 17XVII. HATRED3′
  18. 18XVIII. THE MAIDSERVANTS’ ROOM7′
  19. 19XIX. BOYHOOD5′
  20. 20XX. WOLODA4′
  21. 21XXI. KATENKA AND LUBOTSHKA2′
  22. 22XXII. PAPA4′
  23. 23XXIII. GRANDMAMMA3′
  24. 24XXIV. MYSELF1′
  25. 25XXV. WOLODA’S FRIENDS3′
  26. 26XXVI. DISCUSSIONS6′
  27. 27XXVII. THE BEGINNING OF OUR FRIENDSHIP4′
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