Edmundo de Amicis,Desmond Hartley: Cuore: The Heart of a Boy

Cuore: The Heart of a Boy


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Required reading in Italian schools since 1886, Cuore is the Huckleberry Finn of Italy - 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 medium - there are films, major TV series, radio adaptations, plays and comic 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.

Head mage Alexander Stowe and his friends successfully fended off the latest threat to their magical world of Artime with the help of a surprise ally. But Cuore: The Heart of a Boy download PDF old enemies have secretly been plotting against them. Now Alex must lead his people in a final epic battle, one they can t hope to win alone. Will Artime finally know peace or will all they ve fought for be destroyed forever?" From acclaimed author Susan Krinard comes the second novel in a magnificent trilogy of a powerful clan whose sensual legacy is cloaked in secrecy-and a beautiful woman kidnapped by an outlaw whose forbidden embrace could reveal her true identity.... Once a Wolf A stunningly inventive breakthrough novel that takes the fantasy genre into a new dimension; this fourth novel in the Sword of Truth sequence takes the series on to much darker ground without losing any of its powerful magic and mystery, any of its gripping storytelling quality.


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Author: Edmundo de Amicis,Desmond Hartley
Number of Pages: 256 pages
Published Date: 15 Jun 2005
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780720612325
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