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I What I Consider to have Been the Beginning of My Youth
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Released on: 10/11/2017
aim and relations. The essence of that view lay in the conviction that the destiny of man is to
life, with the firm intention of never again changing them.It is from that moment that I date the beginning of my youth.I was then nearly sixteen. Tutors still attended to give me lessons, St. Jerome still acted as general supervisor of my education, and, willy-nilly, I was being prepared for the University. In addition to my studies, my occupations included certain vague dreamings and ponderings, a number of gymnastic exercises to make myself the finest athlete in the world, a good deal of aimless, thoughtless wandering through the rooms of the house (but more especially along the maidservants’ corridor), and much looking at myself in the mirror. From the latter, however, I always turned away with a vague feeling of depression, almost of repulsion. Not only did I feel sure that my exterior was ugly, but I could de
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1 I What I Consider to have Been the Beginning of My Youth2 II Springtime3 III Dreams4 IV Our Family Circle5 V My Rules6 VI Confession7 VII The Expedition to the Monastery8 VIII The Second Confession9 IX How I Prepared Myself for the Examinations10 X The Examination in History11 XI My Examination in Mathematics12 XII My Examination in Latin13 XIII I Become Grown-Up14 XIV How Woloda and Dubkoff Amused Themselves15 XV I Am Feted at Dinner16 XVI The Quarrel17 XVII I Get Ready to Pay Some Calls18 XVIII The Valakhin Family19 XIX The Kornakoffs20 XX The Iwins21 XXI Prince Ivan Ivanovitch22 XXII Intimate Conversation with My Friend23 XXIII The Nechludoffs24 XXIV Love25 XXV I Become Better Acquainted with the Nechludoffs26 XXVI I Show off27 XXVII Dimitri28 XXVIII In the Country29 XXIX Relations Between the Girls and Ourselves30 XXX How I Employed My Time31 XXXI "Comme IL Faut"32 XXXII Youth33 XXXIII Our Neighbours34 XXXIV My Father's Second Marriage35 XXXV How We Received the News36 XXXVI The University37 XXXVII Affairs of the Heart38 XXXVIII The World39 XXXIX The Students' Feast40 XL My Friendship with the Nechludoffs41 XLI My Friendship with the Nechludoffs42 XLII Our Stepmother43 XLIII New Comrades44 XLIV Zuchin and Semenoff45 XLV I Come to Grief