very inspiring role model characters, yet fun and realistic

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	• Heart: A School-Boy's Journal Edmondo De Amicis Fredonia Books (NL), 2003 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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very inspiring role model characters, yet fun and realistic

This is without a doubt the best book for children I have ever read. I read it the first time being 14 year old and I still enjoy it (I am 44 now). The characters of this journal are 'normal' (rather than 'idealistic'), yet of the high moral standard. It encompasses very current issues: wealth, poverty, immigration, moral character during war, family integration, etc. etc.

Great italian novel, about inculcating values to the young

This italian novel, written in the mid 19th century and dealing with the fictional diary of a boy during his third year at a school might seem a bit sentimental and moralizing to modern audiences. It reminds us of a time when literature saw as one of its missions to try to inculcate certain moral values on its readers, values that might seem old fashioned today. Like being a good citizen, loving your country, being nice to the less fortunate than you, working hard, studying hard, etc. Yet, I found this book very interesting for that very reason, for it reminds us that art's mission was seen as very different from today as recently as a century and a half ago. Reportedly, this book was very famous in certain asian countries like Japan, and this might be because the need to inculcate moral values to the young wasn't seen as old fashioned there (at least, until very recently).

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so wonderful

i am a reader from china,when i at school i read this book,now i am in college ,i re-read it.what a pity!I never read this english book ,because the thranslator's level is so bad.i want to get the english ,but i have no money,haha,that is great i must have a good work,so i can buy this book.

Written following the Italian war for independence by a sub-lieutenant who had fought in the siege of Rome in 1870, Heart is the fictional diary of a boy's third year in a Turin municipal school. It was written to foster juvenile appreciation of the newfound Italian national unity, which the author had fought for in the recent war. The book is often highly emotional, even sentimental, but gives a vivid picture of urban Italian life at that time. A master, introducing a new pupil, tells the class, "Remember well what I am going to say. That this fact might come to pass--that a Calabrian boy might find himself at home in Turin, and that a boy of Turin might be in his own home in Calabria, our country has struggled for fifty years, and thirty thousand Italians have died."

The novel became internationally popular, and has been translated into over twenty-five languages, and is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.

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