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Italian Stories
Author: Robert A. Hall
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-09-20
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0486120309
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Eleven great stories in original Italian with vivid, accurate English translations on facing pages, teaching and practice aids, Italian-English vocabulary, more. Boccaccio, Machiavelli, d'Annunzio, Pirandello and Moravia, plus significant works by lesser-knowns.
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 0141985623
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century. Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and dramatic political events. This wide-ranging selection curated by Jhumpa Lahiri includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating new discoveries. More than a third of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, several of them by Lahiri herself.
Italian Folktales
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013-08-26
Total Pages: 799
ISBN-13: 0544283228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are “a treasure” (Los Angeles Times). Filled with kings and peasants, saints and ogres—as well as some quite extraordinary plants and animals—these two hundred tales bring to life Italy’s folklore, sometimes with earthy humor, sometimes with noble mystery, and sometimes with the playfulness of sheer nonsense. Selected and retold by one of the country’s greatest literary icons, “this collection stands with the finest folktale collections anywhere” (The New York Times Book Review). “For readers of any age . . . A masterwork.” —The Wall Street Journal “A magic book, and a classic to boot.” —Time
Fables and Folktales
Author: Maristella Maggi
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780812057270
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated collection of fables by the famous Russian writer.
Great Italian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century / I grandi racconti italiani del Novecento: A Dual-Language Book
Author: Jacob Blakesley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-09-19
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0486476316
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This anthology highlights the rich range of modern Italian fiction, presenting the first English translations of works by many famous authors. Contents include fables and stories by Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, and Cesare Pavese; historical fiction by Leonardo Sciascia and Mario Rigoni Stern; and little-known tales by Luigi Pirandello and Carlo Emilio Gadda. No further apparatus or reference is necessary for this self-contained text. Appropriate for high school and college courses as well as for self-study, this volume will prove a fine companion for teachers and intermediate-level students of Italian language and literature as well as readers wishing to brush up on their language skills. Dover (2013) original publication. See every Dover book in print at www.doverpublications.com
Aesop's Fables
Author: Aesop
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781853261282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
Stories from the Pentamerone
Author: Giambattista Basile
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-09-03
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 3387019629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
The King of Mulberry Street
Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: Yearling
Published: 2008-12-10
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0307486753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1892, nine-year-old Dom’s mother puts him on a ship leaving Italy, bound for America. He is a stowaway, traveling alone and with nothing of value except for a new pair of shoes from his mother. In the turbulent world of homeless children in Manhattan’s Five Points, Dom learns street smarts, and not only survives, but thrives by starting his own business. A vivid, fascinating story of an exceptional boy, based in part on the author’s grandfather.
