Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (Penguin Classics)
Contributors: Rosemary Edmonds (Translator)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: September 30, 1964
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780140441390
First sentence: On the 12th of August 18-, exactly three days after my tenth birthday, for which I had received such wonderful presents, Karl Ivanych woke me at seven in the morning by hitting at a fly just over my head with a flap made of sugar-bag paper fastened to a stick.