Alexander - A Shoeshine Boy in Athens: Greek English Parallel Text

Welcome to Alexander - A Shoeshine Boy in Athens: Greek English Parallel Text! This is a fictional story written by a little-known Greek-American author called Julia D. Dragoumis, first published in 1917. The story centers on a twelve-year-old boy called Alexandros, or Alekos for short, who works as a newspaper seller and shoe shiner in the streets of Athens every day and goes to school in the evenings.
Aleko makes friends with a kind, blind old schoolteacher and a neighbor's dog, Solon. Wh...