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Title: Cuore (Heart)
An Italian Schoolboy's Journal
Author: Edmondo De Amicis
Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood
Release Date: May 24, 2009 [EBook #28961]
Language: English
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CUORE
(HEART)
AN
ITALIAN SCHOOLBOY'S JOURNAL
_A Book for Boys_
BY
EDMONDO DE AMICIS
_TRANSLATED FROM THE THIRTY-NINTH ITALIAN EDITION_
BY
ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1887, 1895 and 1901.
BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1915.
BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
Printed in the United States of America
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
THIS book is specially dedicated to the boys of the elementary schools
between the ages of nine and thirteen years, and might be entitled: "The
Story of a Scholastic Year written by a Pupil of the Third Class of an
Italian Municipal School." In saying written by a pupil of the third
class, I do not mean to say that it was written by him exactly as it is
printed. He noted day by day in a copy-book, as well as he knew how,
what he had seen, felt, thought in the school and outside the school;
