Cuore (Heart) - An Italian Schoolboy's Journal

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Cuore (Heart), by Edmondo De AmicisThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Cuore (Heart)An Italian Schoolboy's JournalAuthor: Edmondo De AmicisTranslator: Isabel F. HapgoodRelease Date: May 24, 2009 [EBook #28961]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CUORE (HEART) ***Produced by Emanuela Piasentini and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet Archive/American Libraries.)Cuore, Edmondo de AmicisC U O R E(HEART)ANITALIAN SCHOOLBOY’S JOURNALA Book for BoysBYE D M O N D O D E A M I C I STRANSLATED FROM THE THIRTY-NINTH ITALIAN EDITIONBYISABEL F. HAPGOODNEW YORKTHOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANYPUBLISHERSCopyright, 1887, 1895 and 1901.By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANYCopyright, 1915.By ISABEL F. HAPGOODPrinted in the United States of AmericaAUTHOR’S PREFACEThis 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 ...