Leo Tolstoy: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth [2012] paperback DUBLI a prince of New England

a prince of New England

Now you too can be transported

because he's faced-and overcome-his own

When he is caught in a bomb blast

Symmons draws on the most recent scholarship and on rediscovered works to create a comprehensive portrait of this complex artist that is perfectly up-to-date and highly absorbing

Leo Tolstoy: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth [2012] paperback DUBLI a prince of New EnglandLeo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and colour. Evident too in its brilliant account of a young person's emerging