Project Gutenberg 2025-05-04 Public domain in the USA. 175 Burnett, Frances Hodgson 1849 1924 Townesend, Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett Hodgson, Frances Eliza Birch, Reginald B. (Reginald Bathurst) 1856 1943 Birch, Reginald Bathhurst Piccino, and other child stories $aNew York :$bCharles Scribner's Sons, $c1894, copyright 1897. Two days in the life of Piccino -- The captain's youngest -- Little Betty's kitten tells her story -- How Fauntleroy occurred. Bob Taylor, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Piccino, and other child stories" by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. The central topic of the collection revolves around the lives and adventures of children, with a particular focus on Piccino, an Italian peasant boy whose extraordinary beauty and innocence bring both opportunities and challenges. The stories seem to explore themes of childhood, poverty, culture, and the sometimes comical or poignant misunderstandings between children and adults, particularly between classes and nationalities. The opening of "Piccino" introduces the reader to a tiny, beautiful Italian boy living in poverty near the city of Ceriani, whose striking appearance attracts the attention of wealthy foreign tourists. Piccino becomes a means for his family to gain favors and money from these visitors, culminating in an impulsive English lady, Lady Aileen, "purchasing" him to take to her villa. The narrative then follows the bewildering and often distressing experience Piccino undergoes as he is thrust into the unfamiliar world of wealthy foreigners, subjected to repeated baths, strange food, and uncomfortable clothing, all while feeling acute homesickness for his family, donkey, and rustic life. Despite the good intentions of Lady Aileen, Piccino never adjusts to his new environment and eventually escapes, finding his way home, which brings the story full circle and highlights the deep divide between his simple joys and the alien world of the upper class. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/piccinootherchil00burniala/page/n7/mode/2up 20220718120611burnett 1894 US Reading ease score: 78.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Children's stories, American PZ Text Category: Short Stories Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: British Literature 319855 2025-07-30T06:19:04.972982 text/html 292120 2025-05-04T11:19:21 text/html 2439103 2025-07-30T06:19:12.122928 application/epub+zip 2437326 2025-07-30T06:19:06.824939 application/epub+zip 329285 2025-07-30T06:19:05.721003 application/epub+zip 3221471 2025-07-30T06:19:15.868926 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3189840 2025-07-30T06:19:11.259972 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 276267 2025-07-30T06:19:03.949948 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 256291 2025-05-04T11:19:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17731 2025-07-30T06:19:16.038913 application/rdf+xml 26488 2025-07-30T06:19:06.053936 image/jpeg 3565 2025-07-30T06:19:05.916950 image/jpeg 2856823 2025-07-30T06:19:05.076011 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia