''Boyhood'' (russian: Отрочество, ''Otrochestvo'') is the second
novel in
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...
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autobiographical
An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life.
It is a form of biography.
Definition
The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English peri ...
trilogy
A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, and video games, and are less common in other art forms. Three-part wor ...
, following ''
Childhood
A child (plural, : children) is a human being between the stages of childbirth, birth and puberty, or between the Development of the human body, developmental period of infancy and puberty. The legal definition of ''child'' generally refers ...
'' and followed by ''
Youth
Youth is the time of life when one is young. The word, youth, can also mean the time between childhood and adulthood ( maturity), but it can also refer to one's peak, in terms of health or the period of life known as being a young adult. Yo ...
''. The novel was first published in the Russian literary journal ''
Sovremennik'' in 1854.
Later in life, Tolstoy expressed his unhappiness with the book.
See also
Leo Tolstoy bibliography
External links
(trans. by C.J. Hogarth)
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References
1854 Russian novels
Novels by Leo Tolstoy
Russian autobiographical novels
Works originally published in Sovremennik
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