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Boyhood

Author
Leo Tolstoy
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
2 hours 46 minutes
ISBN
9781802568615
Published
5 September 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • adolescence
  • growing up
  • Russian countryside
  • personal morality
  • social hierarchies
  • loss of innocence
  • character development
  • formative years
  • emotional depth
  • introspection

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Description

Nikolai Irtenev moves through formative adolescence in the Russian countryside, learning social hierarchy, personal morality, and the first quiet loss of innocence. Tolstoy's middle volume of the autobiographical trilogy of growing up. Spoken as when boyhood ends not with a door slam but with a quieter, harder knowing.

Author

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was born to a titled family at Yasnaya Polyana, served in the Crimean War, and wrote the two novels that made Russian fiction a world event: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The first holds a nation at war and at home; the second holds a marriage until it breaks. Later he turned from the worldly novel toward essays and moral tales, arguing with church, property, and his own fame. One hundred and six titles here.

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