His bestknown book is cuore, a childrens novel translated into english as heart. Publication date c1922 topics hapgood, isabel florence, 1850publisher. This book is specially dedicated to the boys of the elementary schools between the ages of nine and thirteen years, and might be entitled. You may copy it, give it away or reuse it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this ebook or online at. The novel is his best known work to this day, having been inspired by his own children furio and ugo who had been schoolboys at the time. The story of a scholastic year written by a pupil of the third class of an italian municipal school.
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Free audio book that you can download in mp3, ipod and itunes format for your portable audio player. The project gutenberg ebook of cuore heart, by edmondo. It is set during the italian unification, and includes several patriotic themes. It was issued by treves on october 17, 1886, the first day of school in italy, and rose to immediate success. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. The novel was also extremely popular and influential in s israelthough at present it is edmkndo rather oldfashioned and no longer wellknown to cirazon current.
Table of contents01 about this book02 authors preface03. This novel by this italian writer shows how the school was in italy in the 19th century and addresses honesty and behaviors. Born in oneglia today part of the city of imperia, he went to the military academy of. Given that the book was published in 1886, and was later utilized for political propaganda by many governments, not only in italy, there are some fascinating. He wrote many sketches of military life for the army journal litalia militare and became its. It records the general problems, excitements, and successes any third grader might deal with, all explained from enricos point of view. The book was published in multiple languages including italian, consists of 362 pages and is available in paperback format. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. It was translated into spanish with the title, corazon.
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