Gurusum: Youth / Leo Tolstoy

Title: Youth

Author: Leo Tolstoy

Translator: C. J. Hogarth

Subjects: Autobiography; Classic; Fiction

Youth is the third in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. Its about emerging awareness of the world, himself and the people around. Again it is a must read including the first two volumes of the trilogy.

CONTENTS

1. WHAT I CONSIDER TO HAVE BEEN THE BEGINNING OF MY YOUTH

7. THE EXPEDITION TO THE MONASTERY

8. THE SECOND CONFESSION

9. HOW I PREPARED MYSELF FOR THE EXAMINATIONS

10. THE EXAMINATION IN HISTORY

11. MY EXAMINATION IN MATHEMATICS

12. MY EXAMINATION IN LATIN

13. I BECOME GROWN-UP

14. HOW WOLODA AND DUBKOFF AMUSED THEMSELVES

15. I AM FETED AT DINNER

16. THE QUARREL

17. I GET READY TO PAY SOME CALLS

18. THE VALAKHIN FAMILY

19. THE KORNAKOFFS

20. THE IWINS

21. PRINCE IVAN IVANOVITCH

22. INTIMATE CONVERSATION WITH MY FRIEND

23. THE NECHLUDOFFS

24. LOVE

25. I BECOME BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH THE NECHLUDOFFS

26. I SHOW OFF

27. DIMITRI

28. IN THE COUNTRY

29. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE GIRLS AND OURSELVES

30. HOW I EMPLOYED MY TIME

31. “COMME IL FAUT”

32. YOUTH

33. OUR NEIGHBOURS

34. MY FATHER’S SECOND MARRIAGE

35. HOW WE RECEIVED THE NEWS

36. THE UNIVERSITY

37. AFFAIRS OF THE HEART

38. THE WORLD

39. THE STUDENTS’ FEAST

40. MY FRIENDSHIP WITH THE NECHLUDOFFS

41. MY FRIENDSHIP WITH THE NECHLUDOFFS

42. OUR STEPMOTHER

43. NEW COMRADES

44. ZUCHIN AND SEMENOFF

45. I COME TO GRIEF