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Stories of Southern Italy
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Stories of Southern Italy

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Carr, EllaEditorFerrante, ElenaContributionMorante, ElsaContributionOvidContributionVirgilContributionDi Lampedusa, Giuseppe TomasiContributionMaugham, W. SomersetContribution
BookHardcover
Ranking795222inBelletristik
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Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea monsters, while in an excerpt from The Smile of the Unknown Mariner Vincenzo Consolo depicts the island in 1860, on the frontline in Italy's war of independence. The South's legendary legacy of brigandage and organized crime enlivens the stories of Leonardo Sciascia, Carlo Levi and Joseph Conrad. Curzio Malaparte and Norman Lewis immortalize the wreckage of Naples and the indomitable spirit of its people during World War II, and Elena Ferrante paints a spectacular portrait of a poor but vibrant Neapolitan neighbourhood in an excerpt from the bestselling My Brilliant Friend. Collectively, these entertaining tales plunge readers into the sometimes harsh and troubled, but always seductive and vital world of Italy's Mezzogiorno
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-84159-633-4
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date06/10/2022
SeriesEveryman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Pages496 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 123 mm, Height 189 mm, Thickness 32 mm
Weight450 g
Article no.45275462
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.39081502
Product groupBelletristik
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Carr, EllaEditorFerrante, ElenaContributionMorante, ElsaContributionOvidContributionVirgilContributionDi Lampedusa, Giuseppe TomasiContributionMaugham, W. SomersetContribution
Ella Carr is the editor of Florence Stories in the Everyman's Library Pocket Classics series. She is the author of the guide Florence Walks and has contributed to a number of travel and hotel guides and to publications including The Oldie and Exberliner.
Elsa Morante was an Italian novelist, poet, and translator. She was born in 1912 in Rome and wrote her debut novel, Lies and Sorcery, while hiding in the countryside during the German occupation of Italy in the Second World War. Alongside Lies and Sorcery, which won the Viareggio Prize, Morante´s novels include Arturo´s Island, which was awarded the Strega Prize, and History: A Novel which became a national bestseller in Italy on publication. She died in 1985.

William Somerset Maugham, famous as novelist, playwright and short-story writer, was born in 1874, and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with a view to practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to letters. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. His position as a successful playwright was being consolidated at the same time. His first play, A Man of Honour, was followed by a series of successes just before and after World War I, and his career in the theatre did not end until 1933 with Sheppey.

His fame as a short story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, subtitled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. His other works include travel books such as On a Chinese Screen, and Don Fernando, essays, criticism, and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook.

In 1927, he settled in the south of France, and lived there until his death in 1965.

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