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Sergei Aksakoff : Years of Childhood

‘A poor, miserable autobiographer naturally desires to make his personality as interesting to the reader as it appears to himself. I feel this strongly in reading other men’s recollections of their early years. There are, however, a few notable exceptions, the best one I know being Serge Aksakoff’s “History of my Childhood”; and in his case the picture was not falsified, simply because the temper, and tastes, and passions of his early boyhood – his intense love of his mother, of nature, of all wildness, and of sport – endured unchanged in him to the end and kept him a boy in heart, able after long years to revive the past mentally, and picture it in it true, fresh, original colours.’

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson      Print: Book

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