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graf Leo Tolstoy
Youth
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664654267
Table of Contents
I. WHAT I CONSIDER TO HAVE BEEN THE BEGINNING OF MY YOUTH
VII. THE EXPEDITION TO THE MONASTERY
IX. HOW I PREPARED MYSELF FOR THE EXAMINATIONS
XI. MY EXAMINATION IN MATHEMATICS
XIV. HOW WOLODA AND DUBKOFF AMUSED THEMSELVES
XVII. I GET READY TO PAY SOME CALLS
XXII. INTIMATE CONVERSATION WITH MY FRIEND
XXV. I BECOME BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH THE NECHLUDOFFS
XXIX. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE GIRLS AND OURSELVES
XXXIV. MY FATHER’S SECOND MARRIAGE
XXXV. HOW WE RECEIVED THE NEWS
XL. MY FRIENDSHIP WITH THE NECHLUDOFFS
XLI. MY FRIENDSHIP WITH THE NECHLUDOFFS
I. WHAT I CONSIDER TO HAVE BEEN THE BEGINNING OF MY YOUTH
I have said that my friendship with Dimitri opened up for me a new view of my life and of its aim and relations. The essence of that view lay in the conviction that the destiny of man is to strive for moral improvement, and that such improvement is at once easy, possible, and lasting. Hitherto, however, I had found pleasure only in the new ideas which I discovered to arise from that conviction, and in the forming of brilliant plans for a moral, active future, while all the time my life had been continuing along its old petty, muddled, pleasure-seeking course, and the same virtuous thoughts which I and my adored friend Dimitri (“my own marvellous Mitia,” as I used to call him to myself in a whisper) had been wont to exchange with one another still pleased my intellect, but left my sensibility untouched. Nevertheless there came a moment