Childhood, Boyhood And Youth

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Tolstoys lightly fictionalized account of his own early experience ranks with Turgenevs Sportsmans Notebook as a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Russian pastoral life. Peasants and soldiers, servants and aristocrats: the whole world of Tolstoys later fiction appears before us here in glowing colours, painted with that vivid freshness and sharp observation which were to become the mature writers hallmarks.

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Leo Tolstoy (Author)
Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 1910.

A.N. Wilson (Introducer)
A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.