V knigu voshli avtobiograficheskaya trilogiya L N Tolstogo "Detstvo Otrochestvo Yunost'" (1852-1864), pervyy roman pisatelya "Semeynoye schast'ye" (1859), posvyashchennyye stanovleniyu lichnosti rebenka v sem'ye, samoopredeleniyu ne tol'ko v domashnikh usloviyakh, no i v mire, vykhodyashchem za granitsy semeynogo ochaga, a takzhe povesti i rasskazy