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"The Heart Of A Boy (Cuore): A Schoolboy's Journal" 1899 DE AMICIS, Edmondo (SOLD)
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DE AMICIS, Edmondo
[290] pp.
Laird & Lee, Publishers Chicago
1899
Edition De Luxe
8 1/2" x 6 1/4"
VG
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Cuore, meaning 'heart' in Italian, is the fictional diary of a young boy's life in a Turin school. The narrator, Enrico, writes vividly of life in the classroom and in the local streets, portraying the achievements and setbacks, pleasures and pains of growing up in a late nineteenth-century Italian community.