Le maree delle sizigie: Romanzo storico
12 agosto 2018
“Andammo a desinare a Mola: ci condussero in una grande sala le cui finestre erano chiuse per mantener la frescura; poi, ad un tratto, il cameriere aprì una di quelle finestre. E’ impossibile esprimere l’incanto del paesaggio che quella specie […]
Donna Paola
“Fulvio s’inchinò, prese dalla mano di Paola il gelato che ella, sorridendo dolcissimamente, gli porgeva, e le disse, guardandola negli occhi: — Vi amo. — Non dovete amarmi — mormorò lei senza scomporsi, seguitando a sorridere. — E perchè? — […]
Historia de la vida del Buscón
“Historia de la vida del Buscón” es una novela picaresca en castellano, escrita por Francisco de Quevedo. Francisco Gómez de Quevedo Villegas y Santibáñez Cevallos (Madrid, 14 de septiembre de 1581 – Villanueva de los Infantes, Ciudad Real, 8 de […]
Rosso Malpelo
“Rosso Malpelo” è una novella di Giovanni Verga, che comparve per la prima volta su Il Fanfulla nel 1878 e che venne in seguito raccolta e pubblicata nel 1880 insieme ad altre novelle uscite nel 1879-1880 in “Vita dei campi”. […]
Don Quixote
11 agosto 2018
“Don Quixote” is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. The story follows the adventures of an hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that […]
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel “helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War”, according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and […]
Algonquin Indian Tales
CHIEF BIG CANOE’S LETTER GEORGINA ISLAND, LAKE SIMCOE. REV. EGERTON R. YOUNG. DEAR FRIEND: Your book of stories gathered from among my tribe has very much pleased me. The reading of them brings up the days of long time ago […]
After the divorce
“After the Divorce” is a novel by Italian author Grazia Deledda. This tragedy is set in Sardinia Constantino Ledda is convicted on charges for murdering his bad uncle. Constantino is innocent, but he accepts the verdict because of her wife […]
Ozma of Oz
“Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, Billina the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, Tik-Tok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded […]