Boyhood

This, the second novel in Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, tells of the early part of his life, when he was living happily with his family in the countryside. It also portrays his first love affair with Sonya and the tragic incident of his mother's death."Boyhood" is the second in a series of three novels. The first in this series is "Childhood" and is followed by "Youth". Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, all books were 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