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The Power of Childhood

Сила детства

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Adaptation of Victor Hugo's poem La guerre civile. A crowd wants to lynch a man being led away under arrest; a child clings to him crying "Papa!", the man tells him to go home and the moved crowd lets him go. Tolstoy recorded his reading of it on a phonograph in 1908; published in 1912.

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Adaptation of Victor Hugo.

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  • Толстой, Л. Н. Собрание сочинений в 22 томах. Moscú: Judózhestvennaia literatura, 1978–1985 (índices de los tomos 1–22 en la Biblioteca Virtual Rusa, RVB; el t. 10, de 1982, recoge los relatos de la Nueva Azbuka y de los cuatro Libros rusos de lectura).

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