Childhood (Library of Russian Classics)
Publisher: Basil Blackwell
Published: February 1988
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780631143963
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.