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 71
... pictures which would gladden the heart of one of those picture - cleaners in London who hang up , as a sign , a picture divided , like death and the lady , at the top of the old ballad : which always leaves you in a state of uncertainty ...
... pictures which would gladden the heart of one of those picture - cleaners in London who hang up , as a sign , a picture divided , like death and the lady , at the top of the old ballad : which always leaves you in a state of uncertainty ...
Page 136
... picture had been but was not now . All this , both the heavy furniture and the ironic pictures , seemed placed there merely to press the eye toward the opposite end of the room , toward the biggest picture in the room , a ro- mantic oil ...
... picture had been but was not now . All this , both the heavy furniture and the ironic pictures , seemed placed there merely to press the eye toward the opposite end of the room , toward the biggest picture in the room , a ro- mantic oil ...
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... picture . It is easy to see by the square of dust that there was a rather large picture there . " Zito smiled and said : " The picture does not exist . It has been destroyed . " Borth said : " You are not hiding it in the basement ? You ...
... picture . It is easy to see by the square of dust that there was a rather large picture there . " Zito smiled and said : " The picture does not exist . It has been destroyed . " Borth said : " You are not hiding it in the basement ? You ...
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HOMER BIGART | 3 |
HAROLD BRODKEY | 9 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING | 19 |
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