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Oxford University Press, USA (1983), Paperback, 334 pages
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LibraryThing member martin1400
Surely one of the great neglected masterpieces of 19th century Russian literature. This and its companion volumes in the author's Family Chronicle trilogy are a truly remarkable account of life in provincial Russia in the early part of that century, seen through the eyes of a child but filtered
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through the consciousness of the adult Aksakov writing it down half a century later. Both passionate and perceptive, with wit and irony, he re-creates through the life of the growing child the world of the small rural gentry and peasantry in both its detail and its overall culture in a way that allows the reader to feel what it was like to be there at that time living that life. Show Less
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1858
1915 (English translation)
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334 p.; 7.24 inches
ISBN
0192815741 / 9780192815743