Eleven Short Stories |
Luigi Pirandello, Stanley Appelbaum (Translator) ISBN: 0486280918 Sorry - no summary available. |
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Journey to the South |
Annie Hawes ISBN: 014101752X Ever since Annie got together with Ciccio, his Calabrian family have spoken of their homeland as an earthly paradise, of wild nights dancing the tarantella, of almond milk sold fresh from roadside stalls, of honey cakes and amaro made from wild...(read more) |
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Midnight in Rome: A Wandering Mind in a City Eternal |
Michael J Gyulai ISBN: 059547375X Having just graduated from the University of California, Michael relocates across the Atlantic in an attempt to satisfy his lifelong infatuation with Rome. But his conventional image of the Italian capital and its people begins to warp when he lands a...(read more) |
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Mirror Mirror |
Gregory Maguire ISBN: 0060988657 A retelling of the Snow White story set in Renaissance Italy. The world was called Monteflore, as far as she knew, and from her aerie on every side all the world descended. The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Blanca de Nevada lives perched high above...(read more) |
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Room with a View, A (Dover thrift editions) |
E.M. Forster ISBN: 0486284670 Sorry - no summary available. |
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See Naples and Die: The Camorra and Organized Crime |
Tom Behan ISBN: 1860647839 The criminal organization known as "The Camorra" existed a century before the emergence of its cousin, the Sicilian Mafia. This book argues that its influence today is as strong as ever. This account of the organization and its leaders claims...(read more) |
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The Food of Love |
Anthony Capella ISBN: 0786272740 Sorry - no summary available. |
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The Humorists' Guide to Italy |
Robert Wechsler ISBN: 1861055919 Every aspect of Italy and Italian life, past and present, is seen through a filter of irony, incongruity, satire, parody and nonsense, making When in Rome not only the companion for your travels but the perfect book to read in those moments spent at...(read more) |
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The Merchant of Venice |
William Shakespeare, M. M. Mahood (Editor) ISBN: 0521532515 The Merchant of Venice has been performed more often than any other comedy by Shakespeare. Molly Mahood pays special attention to the expectations of the play's first audience, and to our modern experience of seeing and hearing the play. In a...(read more) |
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