Sydän: Kirja nuorisolle by Edmondo De Amicis

"Sydän: Kirja nuorisolle" by Edmondo De Amicis is a children's novel published in 1886. Written as a diary by eleven-year-old Enrico Bottini, the story follows a Turin schoolboy navigating third grade among working-class classmates. Through daily entries and monthly moral tales, the novel explores themes of compassion, poverty, family devotion, and Italian patriotism during the unification era. Each story emphasizes helping others and respecting those from different backgrounds, creating a work that influenced generations across multiple countries and political movements. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author De Amicis, Edmondo, 1846-1908
Translator Friberg, Maikki, 1861-1927
Uniform Title Cuore. Finnish
Title Sydän: Kirja nuorisolle
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(novel)
Credits E-text prepared by Helvi Ollikainen and Tapio Riikonen
Reading Level Reading ease score: 52.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
Language Finnish
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject Italy -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Diaries -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Family life -- Italy -- Juvenile fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 53878
Release Date
Last Update Oct 23, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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