Italian Short Stories 1: Parallel Text Edition

by Various, Raleigh Trevelyan (Editor)

Overview

The eight stories in this collection, by Moravian, Pavese, Pratolina, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal rather than literary, and there are notes and biographies to help the student of Italian. However, the volume can also be helpful to Italians, who can improve their English by studying a strict rendering of stories with which thet may already be familiar.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140021967
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/02/1989
Series:	Penguin Parallel Text , #1
Edition description:	Parallel Text
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 5.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Language:	Italian
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Removal / Vasco Pratolini (1913–91) translated by Pamela Swinglehurst
Houses / Cesare Pavese (1908–50) translated by Alexander Fainberg
The Poor / Carlo Cassola (1917–87) translated by Anthony Rhodes
Big Fish, Little Fish / Italo Calvino (1923–87) translated by Archibald Colquhoun
The Ash of Battles Past / Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893–1973) translated by I.M. Rawson
The Mother / Natalia Ginzburg (1916–69) translated by Isabel Quigly
Anguish / Alberto Moravia (1907–90) translated by Angus Davidson
Footsteps in the Snow / Mario Soldati (1906– ) translated by Gwyn Morris

Notes on Italian Texts