Great Italian Stories: 10 Parallel Texts Various (2024)

This spellbinding dual-language collection presents ten short stories in the original Italian alongside expert English translations. Selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, it celebrates some of the finest twentieth-century literature from Italy and offers language learners cultural insight and literary inspiration. The collection ranges from a supernatural tale to a powerful portrait of post-war Italy and includes works by Italo Calvino, Fausta Cialente, Alba de Cespedes, Grazia Deledda, Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante, Lalla Romano, Umberto Saba, Alberto Savinio and Elio Vittorini.