Childhood
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: June 1986
Format: Textbook Binding
ISBN-13: 9789997523655
Subjects: Literature: Classics
First sentence: On the 12th of August, 18- (just three days after my tenth birthday, when I had been given such wonderful presents), I was awakened at seven o'clock in the morning by Karl Ivanitch slapping the wall close to my head with a fly-flap made of sugar paper and a stick.