●AUTHOR'S PREFACE
●OCTOBER
●FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
●OUR MASTER
●AN ACCIDENT
●THE CALABRIAN BOY
●MY COMRADES
●A GENEROUS DEED
●MY SCHOOLMISTRESS OF THE UPPER FIRST
●IN AN ATTIC
●THE SCHOOL
●THE LITTLE PATRIOT OF PADUA
●THE CHIMNEY-SWEEE
●THE DAY OF THE DEAD
●NOVEMBER
●MY FRIEND GARRONE
●THE CHARCOAL-MAN AND THE GENTLEMAN
●MY BROTHER'S SCHOOLMISTRESS
●MY MOTHER
●MY COMPANION CORETTI
●部分目錄

世界文學名著表現了作者描述的特定時代的文化。閱讀這些名著可以領略著者流暢的文筆、逼真的描述、詳細的刻畫，讓讀者如同置身當時的歷史文化之中。為此，我們將這套精心編輯的“名著典藏”奉獻給廣大讀者。我們找來了專門研究西方歷史、西方文化的專家學者，請教了專業的翻譯人員，精心挑選了這些可以代表西方文學的著作，並聽取了一些國外專門研究文學的朋友的建議，不刪節、不做任何人為改動，嚴格按照原著的風格，提供原汁原味的西方名著，讓讀者能享受純正的英文名著。 

The poor little mason is seriously ill; the master told us to go and see him; and Garrone, Derossi, and I agreed to go together. Stardi would have come also, but as the teacher had assigned us the description of The Monument to Cavour, he told us that he must go and see the monument,in order that his description might be more exact. So, by way of experiment, we invited that puffed-up fellow, N等