Tolstoy's lightly fictionalized account of his own early experience ranks with Turgenev's Sportsman's Notebook as a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Russian pastoral life. Peasants and soldiers, servants and aristocrats: the whole world of Tolstoy's later fiction appears before us here in glowing colours, painted with that vivid freshness and sharp observation which were to become the mature writer's hallmarks.
- ISBN10 0714717592
- ISBN13 9780714717593
- Publish Date July 1982 (first published December 1930)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 September 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Central Books Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 456
- Language English