Childhood Boyhood Youth

Early in his twenties Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy Childhood Boyhood and Youth. Despite the fact that he would notoriously criticise it in his old age as a awkward mixture of fact and fiction generations of readers have not agreed finding the book to be a fascinating and perceptive depiction of inner maturation against the backdrop of a world limned with exceptional clarity elegance and colour. Many of the positions techniques and themes that would fully develop in the timeless War and Peace Anna Karenina and other great works of Tolstoy's maturity are also evident in this superb depiction of a young person's developing understanding of the world and his role within it.