Youth (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Product Description <br/>Youth (1856) is an autobiographical novel by Leo Tolstoy and is the third in his trilogy of novels that begins with Childhood and Boyhood. It is the story of the son of wealthy landlord who is slow in realising the differences and class distinctions between himself and his peasants. The events are interspersed with philosophical reflections as the protagonist is made aware of the injustices of the society around him.<br/> About the Author <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.