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DR079
This anthology highlights the rich range of modern Italian fiction, presenting the first English translations of works by many famous authors, including Calvino, Morante, Moravia, Pavese, Sciascia, Pirandello and Gadda.

Product Description

Great Italian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century / I Grandi Racconti Italiani del Novecento: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Italian). Edited and translated by Jacob Blakesley.

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 the self-contained text. Appropriate for high school and college courses as well as 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.

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  • Language

    Italian

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Book Binding

    Paperback

  • Book Format

    Parallel Text

  • Book Genre

    Short Stories

  • Book ISBN

    9780486476315

  • Book Page Count

    272

  • Book Publication Date

    25 Oct 2013

  • Book Publisher

    Dover Publications Inc.; Bilingual edition

  • Catalogue Ref

    DRX

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