Modern Italian short stories.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Slonim, Marc, 1894-1976 (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Simon and Schuster, 1954.
Subjects:	Short stories, Italian > Translations into English. Italy > Social life and customs > Fiction.

Table of Contents:

I. The precursors
La Lupa / Giovanni Verga
The wake / Gabriele d'Annunzio
The bat / Luigi Pirandello
This indolence of mine / Italo Svevo
II. From futurism to fascism
The Sardinian fox / Grazia Deledda
The mistress and the master speak / Alfredo Panzini
Strange stories ; The mask factory ; The cloud maker ; Madmen's congress / Giovanni Papini
Tales of Sicily ; The Siracusan ; The boy / Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
Two sketches ; Aquarium ; Visitors / Emilio Cecchi
An Estruscan harvest / Riccardo Bacchelli
III. Literature under Mussolini
A day in Venice / Bonaventura Tecchi
An indiscreet madrigal / Gianna Manzini
Love letters / Aldo Palazzeschi
Curious tales ; Linaria ; The sleeping beauty / Massimo Bontempelli
Mario and fortune / Giovanni Comisso
The wedding journey / Corrado Alvaro
Return to Fontamara / Ignazio Silone
The unfortunate lover / Alberto Moravia
IV. The new era
The massacre of Vallucciole / Carlo Levi
His Excellency / Indro Montanelli
The petition / Giovanni Guareschi
The flight to France / Francesco Jovine
In a lane of Naples / Giuseppe Marotta
The leather jacket / Cesare Pavese
A mistress of twenty / Vasco Pratolini
The cavaliere / Vitaliano Brancati
Aunt Bess, in memoriam / Giuseppe Berto
Piededefico / Domenico Rea
It's all a question of degree / Carlo Bernari
A poor ghost / G.B. Angioletti
Nora / Mario Soldati
Strange new friends / Dino Buzzati
One afternoon, Adam / Italo Calvino
Uncle Agrippa takes a train / Elio Vittorini.