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Author : Gloria Allaire
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415937252
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (372 download)
Download or read book The Italian Novella written by Gloria Allaire and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Melissa Emerson Walter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487503644
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book The Italian Novella and Shakespeare’s Comic Heroines written by Melissa Emerson Walter and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare's literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency.
Author : Ophelia Sikes
Publisher : Minerva Webworks
ISBN 13 : 1310448183
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Love's Heat - An Italian Nights Novella written by Ophelia Sikes and published by Minerva Webworks. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah and her sister, Megan, have been given the trip of a lifetime. They are cruising the Mediterranean Sea. Starting at Rome, they are working their way counter-clockwise through Florence, Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Sardinia, Sicily, and Pompeii. Life is their playground. And then Hannah meets Brandon. Brandon is strong, intelligent, loyal, and everything Hannah could possibly dream of in a man. He has also just walked in on his fiancee in bed with his best friend. Hannah is willing to wait as long as it takes for him to work his way through this betrayal. And then all Hell breaks loose ... Half of the author's proceeds of all Ophelia Sikes books benefit battered women's shelters. Love's Heat is the first novella in the Italian Nights series. Due to the strong sexual content and adult situations, this book is recommended for readers aged 17+. The first four novellas have cliff-hanger endings, which lead to the final novella with a happily-ever-after. I come from a family which adores Italy. My parents strive to go every year, and I’ve been several times there myself. I took this very cruise through the Mediterranean Sea and wrote my notes while I traveled. The sights, sounds, aromas, and atmosphere of this exotic region are just as I personally experienced them. If you haven’t been to Italy, Monaco, Spain, or France, I highly recommend it. Even if you have to save a little each year to make it a trip of a lifetime, it is well worth it. These locations are the cradle of civilization. The art, food, and culture created here resonate throughout time. In the meantime, enjoy this virtual vacation written from my first-hand experiences!
Author : Gloria Allaire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113535460X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book The Italian Novella written by Gloria Allaire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novella was an important medieval and Renaissance prose narrative form that developed out of exempla and didactic literature and contributed to modern narrative forms. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to comprehensive scholarship on the Italian novella. The essays range from work on the Decameron , the epitome of the genre, to studies of sixteenth century authors who often utilized transgressive or sexual themes in their novellas.
Author : Elizabeth Spencer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878058372
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (583 download)
Download or read book The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. Collected in this volume are The Light in the Piazza, which is her signature piece, and six other Italian tales in which her American characters encounter and respond to the mysteries of Italian mores.
Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141985623
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.
Author : Anthony Mortimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192514091
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Italian Renaissance Tales written by Anthony Mortimer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.' For over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundbreaking Decameron, the Italian novella exercised a crucial influence over European prose fiction. With thirty-nine stories by nineteen authors, many translated for the first time, this anthology presents tales from the whole genre and period. Here we meet a rich cast of humble peasants and shrewd craftsmen, frustrated wives, libidinous friars, ill-fated lovers, and vengeful nobles. These works had a considerable impact in English, and the selection includes tales that have provided sources for Chaucer, Shakespeare, Webster, Marston, Dryden, Byron and Keats. The typical novella is situated in a precise time and place and features people who either existed historically or are presumed to have done so. The subject-matter, whether ribald or sentimental, comic or tragic, often reflects the social and economic conditions of its age and thus the novella has been seen as a crucial stage in the development of fictional realism and the emergence of the novel
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)
Download or read book The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the time of a devastating pandemic, seven women and three men withdraw to a country estate outside Florence to give themselves a diversion from the death around them. Once there, they decide to spend some time each day telling stories, each of the ten to tell one story each day. They do this for ten days, with a few other days of rest in between, resulting in the 100 stories of the Decameron. The Decameron was written after the Black Plague spread through Italy in 1348. Most of the tales did not originate with Boccaccio; some of them were centuries old already in his time, but Boccaccio imbued them all with his distinctive style. The stories run the gamut from tragedy to comedy, from lewd to inspiring, and sometimes all of those at once. They also provide a detailed picture of daily life in fourteenth-century Italy.
Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811228797
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Dry Heart written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriage The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale—a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness—proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality, Natalia Ginzburg's writing here is white-hot, tempered by rage. She transforms the unhappy tale of an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don't more wives kill their husbands?
Author : Andrea Camillieri
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1623656303
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Judges written by Andrea Camillieri and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating distinct traditions and styles of crime writing, the three novellas in Judges are united by a theme of idealistic judges in an often futile struggle against crime and corruption. Andrea Camilleri's novella recounts the charming Judge Surra. Leaving his family behind, Surra arrives in the 19th-century Sicilian town of Montelusa from Turin and is given quirky gifts from the locals, but is oblivious to the veiled threats accompanying them. Finally forced to contend with a hostile community and an imminent attempt on his life, Surra proves he is relentless in his quest for justice. Carlo Lucarelli's novella presents a darkly hued Bologna in the 1980s, where judges are frequent targets of assassination attempts. The protagonist, Judge Valentina Lorenzi--"La Bambina"--stumbles upon an extensive money laundering operation involving prominent public officials. Determined to nip Valentina's investigations in the bud, the criminals attack the judge and leave her clinging to life. Ultimately, Valentina is faced with a troubling question: will she break her vow to uphold the letter of the law in order to bring those responsible to justice? The final novella, The Triple Dream of the Prosecutor, by judge and novelist Giancarlo De Cataldo, teeters between dream and reality. Prosecutor Mandati is engaged in a life-long feud with the corrupt mayor of Novere, and his efforts finally pay off on the night before the trial of his life. Kafkaesque, tumultuous, and thoroughly gripping.
Author : Roberto Nicosia
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527521184
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Italian Short Story through the Centuries written by Roberto Nicosia and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of thirteen essays brings together Italian and American scholars to present a cooperative analysis of the Italian short story, beginning in the fourteenth century with Giovanni Boccaccio and arriving at the twentieth century with Alberto Moravia and Anna Maria Ortese. Throughout the book, the contributors carefully and intentionally unpack and explain the development of the short story genre and demonstrate the breadth of themes – cultural, historical and linguistic – detailed in these narratives. Dedicated to a genre “devoted to lightness and flexibility, as well as quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity,” this collection paints a careful and exacting picture of an important part of both Italian and literary history.
Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593318323
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Whereabouts written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. “Another masterstroke in a career already filled with them.” —O, the Oprah Magazine Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. In the arc of one year, an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city, in the middle of her life’s journey, realizes that she’s lost her way. The city she calls home acts as a companion and interlocutor: traversing the streets around her house, and in parks, piazzas, museums, stores, and coffee bars, she feels less alone. We follow her to the pool she frequents, and to the train station that leads to her mother, who is mired in her own solitude after her husband’s untimely death. Among those who appear on this woman’s path are colleagues with whom she feels ill at ease, casual acquaintances, and “him,” a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. Until one day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun’s vital heat, her perspective will abruptly change. This is the first novel Lahiri has written in Italian and translated into English. The reader will find the qualities that make Lahiri’s work so beloved: deep intelligence and feeling, richly textured physical and emotional landscapes, and a poetics of dislocation. But Whereabouts, brimming with the impulse to cross barriers, also signals a bold shift of style and sensibility. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement.
Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375095
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Family and Borghesia written by Natalia Ginzburg and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century. Carmine, an architect, and Ivana, a translator, lived together long ago and even had a child, but the child died, and their relationship fell apart, and Carmine married Ninetta, and their child is Dodò, who Carmine feels is a little dull, and these days Carmine is still spending every evening with Ivana, but Ninetta has nothing to say about that. Family, the first of these two novellas from the 1970s, is an examination, at first comic, then progressively dark, about how time passes and life goes on and people circle around the opportunities they had missed, missing more as they do, until finally time is up. Borghesia, about a widow who keeps acquiring and losing the Siamese cats she hopes will keep her company in her loneliness, explores similar ground, along with the confusions of feeling and domestic life that came with the loosening social strictures of the 1970s. “She remembered saying that there were three things in life you should always refuse,” thinks one of Natalia Ginzburg’s characters, beginning to age out of youth: “Hypocrisy, resignation, and unhappiness. But it was impossible to shield yourself from those three things. Life was full of them and there was no holding them back.”
Author : Mary Augusta Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Italian Novella ... written by Mary Augusta Scott and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Speroni
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Wit and Wisdom of the Italian Renaissance written by Charles Speroni and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 145320072X
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Italian Girl written by Iris Murdoch and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family struggles for redemption after a funeral brings dark secrets to the surface in this novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, The Sea. For the first time in years, Edmund Narraway has returned to his childhood home—for the funeral of his mother. The visit rekindles feelings of affection and nostalgia—but also triggers a resurgence of the tensions that caused him to leave in the first place. As Edmund once again becomes entangled in his family’s web of corrosive secrets, his homecoming tips a precariously balanced dynamic into sudden chaos, in this compelling story of reunion and coming apart from Iris Murdoch, “one of the most significant novelists of her generation” (The Guardian).
Author : Jeannette Haien
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062090097
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The All of It written by Jeannette Haien and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While fishing in an Irish salmon stream one rainy morning, Father Declan de Loughry ponders the recent deathbed confession of his parishioner Kevin Dennehy. It seems Dennehy and his wife, Enda, had been quietly living a lie for fifty years. Yet the gravity of their deception doesn’t become clear to the good father until Enda shares the full tale of her suffering, finally confiding “the all of it.” Jeannette Haien’s exquisite, awardwinning first novel is a deceptively simple story that resonates with the power of a modern-day myth—an unforgettable narrative of transgression, empathy, and, ultimately, absolution.
