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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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[Illustration: "THE BOY HAD WALKED TEN MILES."--Page 123.]

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;
his father at the end of the year wrote these pages on those notes,
taking care not to alter the thought, and preserving, when it was
possible, the words of his son. Four years later the boy, being then in
the lyceum, read over the MSS. and added something of his own, drawing
on his memories, still fresh, of persons and of things.

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