# Youth

Author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910; Hogarth, C. J. (Charles James), 1869-1942 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2637

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Youth+Tolstoy&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I have said that my friendship with Dimitri opened up for me a new view of my life and of its aim and relations. The essence of that view lay in the conviction that the destiny of man is to strive for moral improvement, and that such improvement is at once easy, possible, and lasting. Hitherto, however, I had found pleasure only in the new ideas which I discovered to arise from that conviction, and in the forming of brilliant plans for a moral, active future, while all the time my life had been continuing along its old petty, muddled, pleasure-seeking course, and the same virtuous thoughts which I and my adored friend Dimitri (“my own marvellous Mitia,” as I used to call him to myself in...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/youth-2637/chapters/16/index.md)