The Home Angel (1856)

The Home Angel is a novel written by Levina Buoncuore Urbino and first published in 1856. The book tells the story of a young woman named Angelina, who is known as the ""home angel"" for her kind and caring nature. Angelina lives with her father and siblings in a small village in Italy, and she spends her days tending to their needs and helping her neighbors.As the story unfolds, Angelina's life takes a dramatic turn when she falls in love with a wealthy landowner named Carlo. Despite their different social statuses, Angelina and Carlo are deeply in love and dream of building a life together. However, their relationship is threatened by the disapproval of Carlo's family and the challenges they face as a couple.The Home Angel explores themes of love, family, and social class, and offers a glimpse into life in rural Italy during the mid-19th century. Through Angelina's story, the novel celebrates the importance of kindness, compassion, and selflessness in building strong communities and relationships.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.