Childhood Paperback – July 6, 2010

This is Tolstoy's first novel, published in 1852. It is written from the point of view of a boy age 10. It could be Tolstoy himself but it is fiction, although Tolstoy had some similar experiences. There is great character developement, conversations and thoughts, a hunt with horses and hounds, beautiful girls, dancing, childhood love and happiness, death and deep sadness. The dictionary built into the Kindle 2 was great to use in that it provided definitions for archaic words or words that also had special or old meanings. I found 8 typographical errors, but I was able to guess the correct words and make a note of this at each location using the wonderful Kindle 2 note feature. There is no table of contents but as you read through there are 28 chapters marked by roman numerals with headings in capital letters.