Youth
by Leo Tolstoy
'Youth ' Summary
Youth is the third novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. It was first published in the popular Russian literary magazine Sovremennik.
Later in life, Tolstoy expressed his unhappiness with this book and the second in the trilogy, Boyhood.
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Leo Tolstoy
Russia
Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, Tolstoy is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878),often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved litera...
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