Recollections from Childhood

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The story of a boy who did not want to become a priest; the masterpiece of Romania's greatest storyteller. Recollections from Childhood (original title in Romanian, Amintiri din copilărie) is a highly entertaining recount of the author's idyllic childhood, disrupted by his parents' ambitions to have him enter priesthood."One of the main literary contributions of Romanian author Ion Creangă. The largest of his two works in the memoir genre, it includes some of the most recognizable samples of first-person narratives in Romanian literature, and is considered by critics to be Creangă's masterpiece." --Wikipedia