Childhood, Boyhood, YouthA superb new translation by Judson Rosengrant of Tolstoy's semi autobiographical trilogy. Leo 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. Readers find the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary