Italy in Mind: An AnthologyAlice Leccese Powers Comprising short stories, novel excerpts, essays, journal entries, letters, and poetry. Italy in Mind captures all the contradictions of the Italian scene: enduring tradition and trendy consumerism, ravishing landscapes and urban sprawl, demonic bureaucracy and unvanquishable human warmth. Each entry is accompanied by a biography of the author, and the entire collection is preceded by a lively introduction by editor Alice Leccese Powers. The result is a work of enchantment, a tribute both to Italy and to generations of literary travelers. |
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... Ansley would take up current words like this , and cite them in quotation marks , as unheard - of audacities . No ; Jenny was not like her mother . Sometimes Mrs. Ansley thought Alida Slade was disappointed ; on the whole she had had a ...
... Ansley would take up current words like this , and cite them in quotation marks , as unheard - of audacities . No ; Jenny was not like her mother . Sometimes Mrs. Ansley thought Alida Slade was disappointed ; on the whole she had had a ...
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... Ansley did not speak . " Well , my dear , I know what was in that letter because I wrote it ! " " You wrote it ? " " Yes . " The two women stood for a minute staring at each other in the last golden light . Then Mrs. Ansley dropped back ...
... Ansley did not speak . " Well , my dear , I know what was in that letter because I wrote it ! " " You wrote it ? " " Yes . " The two women stood for a minute staring at each other in the last golden light . Then Mrs. Ansley dropped back ...
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... Ansley relapsed into silence , and Mrs. Slade , leaning above her , was conscious of a strange sense of isolation , of be- ing cut off from the warm current of human communion . " You think me a monster ! " " I don't know . . . It was ...
... Ansley relapsed into silence , and Mrs. Slade , leaning above her , was conscious of a strange sense of isolation , of be- ing cut off from the warm current of human communion . " You think me a monster ! " " I don't know . . . It was ...
Contents
HOMER BIGART | 3 |
HAROLD BRODKEY | 9 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING | 19 |
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