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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... looked quite formidable today when viewed from a four - foot pile of rubble at the massive lobby entrance . Its career ended definitely on March 15 , when waves of Allied bombers threw great drifts of debris against the hotel wall ...
... looked quite formidable today when viewed from a four - foot pile of rubble at the massive lobby entrance . Its career ended definitely on March 15 , when waves of Allied bombers threw great drifts of debris against the hotel wall ...
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... looked across the country , across hill and dale . In the distance was a little town , on a low slope . But for its compact , fortified look it might have been a town on the English downs . A man in the carriage leaned out of the window ...
... looked across the country , across hill and dale . In the distance was a little town , on a low slope . But for its compact , fortified look it might have been a town on the English downs . A man in the carriage leaned out of the window ...
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... looked abstract Over the Via del Babuino , that first year from the balcony Local color as far as the eye could see , and mumbled in slaps and clumps Of gouaches constantly to itself , A gentian snood of twilight in winter , blood ...
... looked abstract Over the Via del Babuino , that first year from the balcony Local color as far as the eye could see , and mumbled in slaps and clumps Of gouaches constantly to itself , A gentian snood of twilight in winter , blood ...
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HAROLD BRODKEY | 9 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING | 19 |
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