Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (World's Classics)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: December 1930
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780192503527
Subjects: Literature: Texts; 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.