Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth.It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was 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...