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Writing to delight : Italian short stories by nineteenth-century women writers / edited by Antonia Arslan and Gabriella Romani.
LIBRA PQ4250.E5 W75 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Toronto Italian studies
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Italian--Women authors--Translations into English.
- Short stories, Italian.
- Italian fiction--19th century--Translations into English.
- Italian fiction.
- Italian fiction--Women authors--Translations into English.
- Italian fiction--Women authors.
- Women authors.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 210 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Scenes from Nineteenth-Century Italy: Delightful Stories on Those Long, Long Winter Evenings / Gabriella Romani 3
- / Matilde Serao
- Checchina's Virtue 19
- / Neera
- Paolina 58
- Aunt Severina 74
- The Lady of the Evening 81
- / Marchesa Colombi
- Winter Evenings 85
- Learn a Trade for a Rainy Day 93
- Dear Hope 117
- / Caterina Percoto
- The Bread of the Departed 126
- The Caning 144
- / Contessa Lara
- The Coral Necklace 165
- / Virginia Olper Monis
- Woes of the Middle Class 173
- / Bruno Sperani
- Scorn for Life 187
- Afterword: Ladies, Chickens, and Queens: The Strong Voices of Italian Women Writers / Antonia Arslan 191.
- Notes:
- Translations of 7 short stories.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0802038107
- 0802038743
- OCLC:
- 63467977
- Publisher Number:
- 9780802038104
- 9780802038746
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