Boyhood (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>Boyhood (1854) is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy. It tells of the early part of his life, when he was living happily with his family in the countryside. It also portrays his first love affair with Sonya and the tragic incident of his mother's death.<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher noted for his ideas of nonviolent resistance. His diary reveals an incessant pursuit of a morally justified life. He was known for his generosity to the peasants.His best known novels are War and Peace (1869), which Tolstoy regarded as an epic rather than a novel, and Anna Karenina (1877). His work was admired in his time by Dostoyevsky, Checkov, Turgenev, and Flaubert, and later by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.