Writing to delight : Italian short stories by nineteenth-century women writers /

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The nineteenth century represents a crucial historical and cultural phase in the development of modern Italy. -- Writing to Delight -- provides a selection of short stories written by some of the most accomplished and acclaimed female authors of nineteenth-century Italy, made available to an English...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Arslan, Antonia, Romani, Gabriella
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2006.
Colección:Toronto Italian studies.
Temas:
1800-1899
Short stories, Italian > Women authors > Translations into English.
Italian fiction > 19th century > Translations into English.
Italian fiction > Women authors > Translations into English.
Écrits de femmes italiens > Traductions anglaises.
FICTION > General.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > General.
Italian fiction
Italian fiction > Women authors
Translations
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Scenes from nineteenth-century Italy: delightful stories on those long, long, winter evenings / Gabriella Romani
  • Checchina's virtue / Matilde Serao
  • Paolina ; Aunt Severina ; The lady of the evening / Neera
  • Winter evenings ; Learn a trade for a rainy day ; Dear hope / Marchesa Colombi
  • The bread of the departed ; The caning / Caterina Percoto
  • The coral necklace / Contessa Lara
  • Woes of the middle class / Virginia Olper Monis
  • Scorn for life / Bruno Sperani
  • Afterword: Ladies, chickens, and queens: the stron voices of Italian women writers / Antonia Arslan.

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