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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Page 82
... feet in comfortable fashion . There were several dusty bars full of dusty half - full liqueur bottles . But at the back underneath the dining - room there came a short stretch of forest followed by an astonishing vertical drop - a sheer ...
... feet in comfortable fashion . There were several dusty bars full of dusty half - full liqueur bottles . But at the back underneath the dining - room there came a short stretch of forest followed by an astonishing vertical drop - a sheer ...
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... feet wide where it is widest , full of people , and resonant with cries of itinerant salesmen , a shriek in their beginning , and dying away into a kind of brazen ringing , all the worse for its confinement be- tween the high houses of ...
... feet wide where it is widest , full of people , and resonant with cries of itinerant salesmen , a shriek in their beginning , and dying away into a kind of brazen ringing , all the worse for its confinement be- tween the high houses of ...
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... feet ! They would not go around when it was quicker to go through . We do that way in our cities . Every where , you see things that make you wonder how old these old houses were before the night of destruction came- things , too ...
... feet ! They would not go around when it was quicker to go through . We do that way in our cities . Every where , you see things that make you wonder how old these old houses were before the night of destruction came- things , too ...
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HOMER BIGART | 3 |
HAROLD BRODKEY | 9 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING | 19 |
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