num_pages: 268
description: The artistic work of Leo Tolstoy has been described as 'nothing less than one tremendous diary kept for over fifty years'. This particular 'diary' begins with Tolstoy's first published work, "Childhood", which was written when he was only twenty-three. A semi-autobiographical work, it recounts two days in the childhood of ten-year-old Nikolai Irtenev, recreating vivid impressions of people, place and events with the exuberant perspective of a child enriched by the ironic retrospective understanding of an adult. "Boyhood and Youth" soon followed, and Tolstoy was launched on the literary career that would bring him immortality.
language: English
title: Childhood, Boyhood & Youth
titlecomplete: Childhood, Boyhood & Youth
genres: Classics, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, Biography Memoir, Classic Literature, School, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 8694
series: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
publisher: Echo Library