A Russian Schoolboy by Sergei Aksakov (Hardback, 1978-1st) Literary Biography HB

A Russian Schoolboy\nAksakov, Sergei\nPublished by Oxford University Press (1978) First Edition. Illustrated by Kirill Sokolov (illustrator). Translated from the Russian by J. D. Duff. Brown hardcover boards, titled in gilt to the spine. Spine ends a little bumped. Internally clean and tight. Jacket unclipped and protected. with minor edgewear. \n\nSergei Aksakov recalls the \""magic world\"" of youth, as he portrays the delights and tumults of Russian country life at the turn of the 18th century. In 1856 at the age of 64, Aksakov sat down to write the story of his long-ago student life. A Russian Schoolboy is the result. As the older man thinks back to that time more than fifty years earlier, unbidden memories come to him, some painful and others sweet. Under the spell of Aksakov's writing, we can imagine we are listening to the child himself as he suffers the anguished separation from his mother or thrills to his developing capacities as a student. We grow fond of the boy and dearly y