The complete online text of Boyhood by Leo Tolstoy.

Leo Tolstoy is one of the most important novelists in Western literature. The breadth of his vision and the range of his accomplishments are immense. His 1928- 1958 collected works comprise 90 volumes, and a projected new edition will reach at least 134...

Few writers and thinkers have had the widespread, long-lasting influence of Russia's Leo Tolstoy. Besides creating War and Peace and Anna Karenina, two of the most celebrated novels in world literature, Tolstoy was a philosopher whose theories of Christi...

The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the world's great writers, and his War and Peace has been called the greatest novel ever written. Leo Tolstoy was one of the great rebels of all time, a man who during a l...

Former President Jimmy Carter joined a group of squirmy children Tuesday in welcoming Thomas the Tank Engine — the smiling, chubby-cheeked storybook locomotive — to south Georgia.In a speech, Carter said 10 trains a day passed his rural boyhood home and he often stood along...

Steve McQueen, aka the "King of Cool," will be honored later this month in the central Missouri town of Slater, where he grew up.McQueen, whose famous movie moments include a mad motorcycle dash in "The Great Escape" and a car chase through the streets of...

Steve McQueen, aka the "King of Cool," will be honored later this month in the central Missouri town of Slater, where he grew up. McQueen, whose famous movie moments include a mad motorcycle dash in "The Great Escape" and a car chase through the streets...