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"The Heart Of A Boy (Cuore): A Schoolboy's Journal" 1899 DE AMICIS, Edmondo (SOLD)

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 The Heart Of A Boy Edmondo de Amicis · Divisare
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.