Cuore
The Heart of a Boy
Edmundo de Amicis(Author)
Peter Owen Publishers
Published on 1. August 1986
Book
Hardback
254 pages
978-0-7206-0657-7 (ISBN)
Description
Representingthe "Huckleberry Finn" of Italy, this is the most read classic in the country. Presented in the form of a diary, its subject is a young boy's life in Turin following Unification in 1870. The narrator, Enrico, writes vividly of school life and the bustling city of vegetable-sellers, chimney sweeps, and carpenters all around him. Like Huck Finn or Dickens, Cuore has been adapted into just about every conceivable mediumfilms, majortelevision series, radio adaptations, plays, and evencomic books. It is a set text on courses from University College London to Harvard and is even a cult classic in Japan in its incarnation as an anime film. From Henry Miller, who wrote a glowing monograph on the book, to world-famous tenor Andrea Bocelli, who wrote a song about it, this simple tale of childhood has inspired all kinds of people and continues to do so today."
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
416 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7206-0657-7 (9780720606577)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Edmondo de Amicis was born in Piedmont in 1846, at a time when Italy lay dismembered. A soldier by profession, he spent much of his youth fighting for a united Italy. An admirer of the writer Alessandro Manzoni, who considered that Florentine should be the standard Italian language, he wrote only in Florentine Italian. With the huge success of Cuore he achieved his goal of having hadthrough his novel s central place on the school syllabusa formative influence on the written language of modern Italy."