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Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect; and a mother he both adored and resented; he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules; but whose rules he knew he must obey. Steering between these contradictions; Boyhood evokes the tensions; delights and terrors of childhood with startling; haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints; and the account of his progress is bright; hard and simply compelling.

"Boyhood" is the second in a series of three novels. The first in this series is "Childhood" and is followed by "Youth". Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, all books were an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.

"Boyhood" is the second in a series of three novels. The first in this series is "Childhood" and is followed by "Youth". Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, all books were an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.

"Boyhood" is the second in a series of three novels. The first in this series is "Childhood" and is followed by "Youth". Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, all books were an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.

"Boyhood" is the second in a series of three novels. The first in this series is "Childhood" and is followed by "Youth". Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, all books were an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.

"Boyhood" is the second in a series of three novels. The first in this series is "Childhood" and is followed by "Youth". Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, all books were an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.

"Boyhood" is the second in a series of three novels. The first in this series is "Childhood" and is followed by "Youth". Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, all books were an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.

"Boyhood" is the second in a series of three novels. The first in this series is "Childhood" and is followed by "Youth". Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, all books were an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.

"Boyhood" is the second in a series of three novels. The first in this series is "Childhood" and is followed by "Youth". Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, all books were an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Boyhood (Russian: Отрочество, Otrochestvo) is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and followed by Youth. The novel was first published in the Russian literary journal Sovremennik in 1854.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born at Yasnya Polyana, in Tula Province, fourth of five children. Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina; in their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realistic fiction. As a moral philosopher he was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through his work The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. In the 1850s Tolstoy also began his literary career with an autobiographical trilogy: Childhood (1852), Boyhood (1854), and Youth (1857). His first publications tell of a rich landowner's son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasant playmates. Although in later life Tolstoy rejected these books as sentimental, a great deal of his own life is revealed, and the books still have relevance for their telling of the universal story of growing up.