Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother's eye, before attending school to slake what is considered a bizarre thirst for learning. As he grows up, the wider political and social changes occurring in Kenya begin to i...(展开全部)

By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa’s leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affecte...(展开全部)

By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa’s leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affecte...(展开全部)

安德烈•亚历克西斯(André Alexis) 加拿大作家。1957年生于特立尼达，目前定居多伦多。1998年凭第一部长篇小说《童年漫游者》获加拿大最佳处女作奖，并与艾丽丝·门罗同获崔灵文学奖。已出版多部小说，其中《十五条狗》获吉勒文学奖、罗杰斯作家联合会小说奖、坎贝尔文学奖三项大奖。

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安德烈•亚历克西斯(André Alexis) 加拿大作家。1957年生于特立尼达，目前定居多伦多。1998年凭第一部长篇小说《童年漫游者》获加拿大最佳处女作奖，并与艾丽丝·门罗同获崔灵文学奖。已出版多部小说，其中《十五条狗》获吉勒文学奖、罗杰斯作家联合会小说奖、坎贝尔文学奖三项大奖。

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, "Childhood, Boyhood, Youth", in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and colou...(展开全部)

In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The first section of the book explores the gradual change from the medieval attitude to children, looked upon as small adults as soon as they were past infancy, to the seventeenth and eighteenth century awareness of the...(展开全部)

Maria Montessori describes the child with warmth and the exactness of a scientist. She also discusses the array of materials and techniques needed to release his learning potential.