Eleven Short Stories |
 Luigi Pirandello, Stanley Appelbaum (Translator)
ISBN: 0486280918
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Italian Short Stories: Racconti Italiano (New Penguin Parallel Text Series) |
 Nick Roberts (Editor)
ISBN: 0140265406
This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original Italian and in English translation. Including stories by Calvino, Benni, Sciascia and Levi, this volume gives a fascinating...(read more) |
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Madame Serpent (The Medici Trilogy: Volume 1) |
 Jean Plaidy
ISBN: 0099493179
Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de'Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France. On the promise of a dowry fit for a king, Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into...(read more) |
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Queen Jezebel (The Medici Trilogy: Volume 3) |
 Jean Plaidy
ISBN: 0099493195
The ageing Catherine de' Medici has arranged the marriage of her beautiful Catholic daughter Margot to the uncouth Huguenot King Henry of Navarre. Margot, still desperately in love with Henry de Guise, refuses to utter her vows. But even Catherine is...(read more) |
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The Food of Love |
 Anthony Capella
ISBN: 0751535699
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The Italian Woman (The Medici Trilogy: Volume 2) |
 Jean Plaidy
ISBN: 0099493187
When Catherine de' Medici was forced to marry Henry of Orleans, her's was not the only heart broken. Jeanne of Navarre once dreamed of marrying this same prince, but like Catherine, she must bend to the will of King Francis's political needs. And so...(read more) |
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Two Lives: "Reading Turgenev" and "My House In Umbria" |
 William Trevor
ISBN: 0140153721
Two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred. In ‘Reading Turgenev’, which was shortlisted for the...(read more) |
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Umbria (Armchair Traveller (Haus Publishing)) |
 Patricia Clough
ISBN: 1905791348
(Hardcover) When Patricia Clough bought a house in Umbria she knew that buying her dream home did not mean that one's life became a dream. By the end of this book, in which she describes the journey of making Umbria her home, she is sure that 'if one...(read more) |
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