{"product_id":"childhood-boyhood-youth-by-leo-tolstoy-9780140449921","title":"Childhood, Boyhood, Youth","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA superb new translation by Judson Rosengrant of Tolstoy's semi-autobiographical trilogy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLeo Tolstoy began his trilogy, \u003cem\u003eChildhood, Boyhood, Youth\u003c\/em\u003e, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed. Readers find the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace, and colour. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvident too in its brilliant account of a young person's emerging awareness of the world and of his place within it are many of the stances, techniques, and themes that would come to full flower in the immortal \u003cem\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/em\u003e, and in the other great works of Tolstoy's maturity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46486538879212,"sku":"9780140449921","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780140449921.jpg?v=1748337666","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/childhood-boyhood-youth-by-leo-tolstoy-9780140449921","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}