Tolstoy Leo 
Youth (Annotated) 

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Nikolay Irtenyev’s sixteenth spring has arrived. He’s studying for university exams, his mind racing with visions and thoughts about his future. Nikolai begins a second notebook in which he lays down the obligations and regulations essential for moral progress in order to define the purpose of life. A gray-haired monk, a confessor, arrives at the house in a charged atmosphere. Nicholas feels clean and new after his confession.