The complete online text of Childhood 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...

LAURENCE CHOLLET The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-06-1996 CHILDHOODS AND VIETNAM By LAURENCE CHOLLET Date: 10-06-1996, Sunday Section: YOUR TIME Edition: All Editions -- Sunday The psychoanalyzing of historical figures has often been a dicey business, but Dr. Blema S. Steinberg has...

Book of the month Childhood and Society: An introduction to the sociology of childhood Michael Wyness Palgrave Macmillan 2006 ISBN: 0333946499, £19.95 What approach do health visitors, school nurses and community children's nurses take to children, and on what framework do they base...

Rhonda Sanders received an eye-opening letter from her daughter's school three years ago: At age 10, her 5-foot, 137-pound child was heavier than 98 percent of her peers. After a regimen that included the family jumping rope in...

From a sculpture of a pigtailed girl with four eyes to a photograph of a self-conscious teenager on the beach, works in the "Pretty Baby" art exhibit demonstrate that childhood can be anything but simple.The exhibit features the creations of more than a dozen artists...