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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... Hill , a barrier that three great assaults had failed to storm . Behind Castle Hill is a shallow vale between the ruined castle and Monastery Hill where the Japanese - American battalion had been isolated for nine days while American ...
... Hill , a barrier that three great assaults had failed to storm . Behind Castle Hill is a shallow vale between the ruined castle and Monastery Hill where the Japanese - American battalion had been isolated for nine days while American ...
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... hill . The waves under the sky and the sky over the waves perfected themselves in endless repetition , but the hill stumbled and twitched . A desert ate into its sea front and a gully cankered its piney back , or what had been its piney ...
... hill . The waves under the sky and the sky over the waves perfected themselves in endless repetition , but the hill stumbled and twitched . A desert ate into its sea front and a gully cankered its piney back , or what had been its piney ...
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... hill town , sentinel to the northwest route , had been besieged for more than a month , the barrage focusing upon the two villas and the monastery surrounded by apple and plum orchards . There was the Villa Medici , where the generals ...
... hill town , sentinel to the northwest route , had been besieged for more than a month , the barrage focusing upon the two villas and the monastery surrounded by apple and plum orchards . There was the Villa Medici , where the generals ...
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HOMER BIGART | 3 |
HAROLD BRODKEY | 9 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING | 19 |
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