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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... half dozen stone houses that seemed to have escaped direct hits during the great air raid , al- though their walls were punctured by shelling . Elsewhere the Air Force had done a truly remarkable job of flat - lining Cassino . There was ...
... half dozen stone houses that seemed to have escaped direct hits during the great air raid , al- though their walls were punctured by shelling . Elsewhere the Air Force had done a truly remarkable job of flat - lining Cassino . There was ...
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... half , or dirtied the other . The furniture of this sala is a sort of red brocade . All the chairs are immovable and the sofa weighs several tons . On the same floor , and opening out of this same chamber , are dining - room , drawing ...
... half , or dirtied the other . The furniture of this sala is a sort of red brocade . All the chairs are immovable and the sofa weighs several tons . On the same floor , and opening out of this same chamber , are dining - room , drawing ...
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... half of this first day was gone . He took the sheets of in- structions up from the desk and tore them in half , and tore the halves in quarters , and crumbled up the quarters and threw them into a cane wastebasket under the desk . Then ...
... half of this first day was gone . He took the sheets of in- structions up from the desk and tore them in half , and tore the halves in quarters , and crumbled up the quarters and threw them into a cane wastebasket under the desk . Then ...
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HOMER BIGART | 3 |
HAROLD BRODKEY | 9 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING | 19 |
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