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A Very Italian Christmas

The Greatest Italian Holiday Stories of All Time

by Giovanni Boccaccio, Luigi Pirandello, Camillo Boito, Matilde Serao, Anna Maria Ortese, Andrea De Carlo, Grazia Deledda, Giovanni Verga, Natalia Ginzburg ...

Series series Very Christmas
Classic and contemporary Christmas stories by great writers from Boccaccio to Strega Prize winner Anna Maria Ortese to Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda.The third in the very popular Very Christmas series, this volume brings together the best Italian Christmas stories of all time in a vibrant collection featuring classic tales and contemporary works. With writing that dates from the Renaissance to the ... Read more

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Classic and contemporary Christmas stories by great writers from Boccaccio to Strega Prize winner Anna Maria Ortese to Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda.The third in the very popular Very Christmas series, this volume brings together the best Italian Christmas stories of all time in a vibrant collection featuring classic tales and contemporary works. With writing that dates from the Renaissance to the
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Senso(and other stories)

by Camillo Boito ...

The combination of decadence,the macabre and the demonic, with depraved female heroines made Boito's stories an immediate and popular success in fin de siecle Italy.Today Boito is seen as one of the major Italian authors of his period and the master of the novella form. Outside Italy lLuchino Visconti's film of Senso, which brilliantly captured the ambience and atmosphere of the novella, created a ... Read more

$10.69 USD

The combination of decadence,the macabre and the demonic, with depraved female heroines made Boito's stories an immediate and popular success in fin de siecle Italy.Today Boito is seen as one of the major Italian authors of his period and the master of the novella form. Outside Italy lLuchino Visconti's film of Senso, which brilliantly captured the ambience and atmosphere of the novella, created a
... Read more
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Forgotten Authors, The - Men - The Complete Edition

Don't let great literature die

by Grant Allen, Edmondo de Amicus, F Anstey, Richard Harris Barham, Sabine Baring-Gould, Max Beerbohm, Camillo Boito, Guy Boothby, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William E Burton, Georges Eekhourd, Anatole France, Théophile Gautier, Perceval Gibbon, Stefan Grabinski, William Dean Howells, Thomas Mann, John Willaim Polidori ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Jake Urry, Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

65 hours 15 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$49.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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Forgotten Authors, The - The Complete Edition

Over 127 hours of incredible literature that has been sadly ignored

by Avetis Aharonian, Juhani Aho, A J Alan, Grant Allen, Edmondo de Amicus, Louisa Baldwin, Max Beerbohm, Harold Begbie, Aphra Behn, Samuel Blas, Camillo Boito, Guy Boothby, Fernan Caballeron, Bernard Capes, Ion Luca Caragiale, Georges Eekhourd, Théophile Gautier, Giovanni Boccaccio, Augustus Hare, Mór Jókai, Alfred Lichtenstein ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

76 hours 3 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$69.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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Forgotten Authors, The - Continental European Men

Don't let great literature die

by Camillo Boito, Ion Luca Caragiale, Louis Couperus, Anatole France, Théophile Gautier, Mór Jókai, Thomas Mann, Eça de Queirós, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Bruno Schulz, Ömer Seyfettin, Hristo Smirenski, The Brothers Grimm ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, Janet Fullerlove, Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

15 hours 21 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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Sketch from Life

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Camillo Boito ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

24 min

The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Camillo Boito. ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Camillo Boito.
... Read more
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Forgotten Authors, The - The Europeans

Don't let great literature die

by Giovanni Boccaccio, Carlo Gozzi, Fernan Caballeron, Wilhelm Hauff, George Sand, Théophile Gautier, Mikhail Lermontov, Mór Jókai, Helena Blavatsky, Camillo Boito, Anatole France, Eca de Queiros, Vladimir Korolenko, Jean Lorrain, Nikolai Teleshov, Thomas Mann ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Mark Rice-Oxley, Janet Fullerlove ...

Unabridged

23 hours 9 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 2

M McDonell Bodkin Q C to Constance Cotterell

by Camillo Boito, Guy Boothby, D K Broster, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William E Burton, Fernan Caballeron, Mona Caird, Ivan Cankar, Minna Canth, Bernard Capes, Ion Luca Caragiale, Arthur Gask, Gertrude Colmore ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

12 hours 30 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more

The Conformist

by Alberto Moravia ...

Series series Italia
Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police during the Mussolini years. But then he is assigned ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police during the Mussolini years. But then he is assigned
... Read more
The Professor and the Siren

by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa ...

Translated by Stephen Twilley ...

An NYRB Classics OriginalIn the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel The Leopard but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation.“The Professor and the Siren,” like The Leopard, meditates on the past and the passage of time, and also on the relationship between ... Read more

$8.99 USD

An NYRB Classics OriginalIn the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel The Leopard but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation.“The Professor and the Siren,” like The Leopard, meditates on the past and the passage of time, and also on the relationship between
... Read more
The Florentine Artist, Illustrated.

by E H & E W Blashfield ...

An essay written and illustrated by the Blashfields on the Florentine Artist and their role in the renascence. ... Read more

$1.99 USD

An essay written and illustrated by the Blashfields on the Florentine Artist and their role in the renascence.
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Sparrow(and other stories)

by Giovanni Verga ...

This volume contains the long novella Sparrow and five stories never previously translated into English: Temptation, The Schoolmaster, The Devil's Hand, The Gold Key and Comrades. A great read for anyone interested in Sicily and Southern Italy. Verga is the master of the short-story form. 'Giovanni Verga is one of the 19th Century's greatest writers but his work is barely known outside of Italy. ... Read more

$10.79 USD

This volume contains the long novella Sparrow and five stories never previously translated into English: Temptation, The Schoolmaster, The Devil's Hand, The Gold Key and Comrades. A great read for anyone interested in Sicily and Southern Italy. Verga is the master of the short-story form. 'Giovanni Verga is one of the 19th Century's greatest writers but his work is barely known outside of Italy.
... Read more

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