Boyhood (Russian: Отрочество]; 1854) is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographicaltrilogy. 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Leo Tolstoy, pictured late in life Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy listen [â–¶] (Russian: Лев ÐиколаÌевич ТолÑтоÌй; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910; August 28, 1828 – November 7, 1910, O.S.) was a Russian novelist, social reformer, pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, moral thinker and an influential member... Autobiography (from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write) is biography written by the subject or composed conjointly with a collaborative writer (styled as told to or with). The term dates from the late eighteenth century, but the form is much older. ... A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature or film, that develop a single theme over three works. ...
Novels, such as Huckleberry Finn, which purport to tell the life of the narrator, are not generally considered autobiographical novels.
J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun is a novel about his boyhood, and Crash, about the sexual turn-on of car crashes, he describes as "an autobiographical novel in the sense that it is about my inner life, my imaginative life".
Kenneth Rexroth, An Autobiographical Novel (1966), The title was suggested by the original publisher to reduce the risk of libel suits.
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