Autobiographical Trilogy: Childhood-Boyhood -Youth / Tolstoy and his Message

Contents:

Three Novels by Leo Tolstoy included in “Autobiographical Trilogy”.
Enriched by “Tolstoy and his message” by Ernest Howard Crosby.
An illustrated biography from “The life of Tolstoy” (Vol. 1 & 2) by Maude, Aylmer.

Along with Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of the giants of 19th Century Russian literature, and widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction. Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family.

Childhood is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was 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.