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The narrative follows a precocious boy named Walter, raised in a modest Amsterdam household, as he grows through schoolroom follies, family eccentricities, romantic infatuations, and social embarrassments. Presented in episodic vignettes, the story alternates keen comic observation with tender portraiture, depicting his literary ambitions, awkward courtships, friendships, and brushes with adulthood. Secondary figures such as pedantic teachers, officious neighbors, and anxious guardians embody the small-town manners and hypocrisies gently satirized. The first part concentrates on childhood and early education, blending playful satire and sentiment to examine how imagination and social expectation shape a young life.

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The text is based on the scans made available by Google Books 1 and 2. The first set of scans are also available via the Internet Archive.

A Dutch version, Woutertje Pieterse is also available in Project Gutenberg. Note that due to the complicated publication history of this work, as explained in the introduction here, this text only partly corresponds to the Dutch version. Furthermore, the translator has taken certain liberties in omitting materials.

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