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  • Neapolitan Chronicles

    by Anna Maria Ortese ...
    This prizewinning collection of stories and essays set in post-WWII Naples is "required reading for [Elena] Ferrante fans" ( Kirkus Reviews).A classic of European literature, this superb collection of fiction and reportage is set in Italy's most vibrant and turbulent metropolis—Naples—in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Depicting the widespread suffering and brutal desperation that plagued ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Very Italian Christmas

    The Greatest Italian Holiday Stories of All Time

    by Giovanni Boccaccio, Luigi Pirandello, Camillo Boito, Matilde Serao, Anna Maria Ortese, Andrea De Carlo, Grazia Deledda, Giovanni Verga, Natalia Ginzburg ...
    Series series Very Christmas
    Classic and contemporary Christmas stories by great writers from Boccaccio to Strega Prize winner Anna Maria Ortese to Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda.The third in the very popular Very Christmas series, this volume brings together the best Italian Christmas stories of all time in a vibrant collection featuring classic tales and contemporary works. With writing that dates from the Renaissance to the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Neapolitan Chronicles

    by Anna Maria Ortese ...
    Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 12 min

    A riveting classic of European literature, this superb collection of fiction and reportage is set in Italy’s most vibrant and turbulent metropolis―Naples―in the immediate aftermath of World War II. These writings helped inspire Elena Ferrante’s bestselling novels, and she has expressed deep admiration for the author of this volume.Goyaesque in its depiction of the widespread suffering and brutal ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Blood Curse

    The Springtime of Commissario Ricciardi

    by Maurizio de Giovanni ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Commissario Ricciardi Series

    Unabridged

    10 hours 27 min

    Ricciardi has visions. He sees and hears the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths. It is both a gift and a curse. It has helped him become one of the most acute and successful homicide detectives in the Naples police force. But all that horror and suffering has hollowed him out emotionally: He drinks and doesn't sleep. Other than his loyal partner Brigadier Maione he has no ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Conformist

    by Alberto Moravia ...
    Series series Italia
    Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police during the Mussolini years. But then he is assigned ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Shylock's Daughter

    A Novel of Love in Venice

    by Erica Jong ...
    In this "amazing tour de force," an actress travels back in time and has an affair with William Shakespeare, from a #1 New York Times bestseller ( Cosmopolitan).An aging Hollywood film star, Jessica Pruitt fears the best days of her career are behind her. Arriving in Italy, she hopes to escape her worries by serving as a judge at the Venice Film Festival and immersing herself in preparations for ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Glorious Ones

    A Novel

    by Francine Prose ...
    The story of a troupe of actors in seventeenth- century Italy, from "one of a handful of truly indispensable American writers" (Gary Shteyngart).The Glorious Ones are an unlikely troupe of actors, traveling up and down the seventeenth-century Italian countryside performing commedia dell'arte for kings, for peasants, for anyone with coin. There is Armanda, the cheerful dwarf and ex-nun; ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Love for Three Oranges

    The John Singer Sargent/Violet Paget Mysteries, #2

    by Mary F. Burns ...
    Series Book 2 - The John Singer Sargent/Violet Paget Mysteries
    This second mystery finds amateur sleuths John Singer Sargent and Violet Paget afloat in murder in the fabled City of Venice during the darkest days of the year (1879). Secrets and long-held grudges surface at Ca' Favretto, an ancient palazzo on the Grand Canal, which has been recently purchased and refurbished by an Italian artist and good friend of Sargent--but will the ghosts of the past allow ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hidden Voices

    The Orphan Musicians of Venice

    by Pat Lowery Collins ...
    While studying under Vivaldi, three girls in a Venice orphanage forge their own notions of love in a sensuous, engrossing novel told in three narrative voices.It is a longing and search for love that motivates three girls living in the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage renowned for its extraordinary musical program. But for Rosalba, Anetta, and Luisa, the love they seek is not where they expect ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Piazza

    Stories

    by Herman Melville ...
    Don Benito faltered; then, like some somnambulist suddenly interfered with, vacantly stared at his visitor, and ended by looking down on the deck. He maintained this posture so long, that Captain Delano, almost equally disconcerted, and involuntarily almost as rude, turned suddenly from him, walking forward to accost one of the Spanish seamen for the desired information. But he had hardly gone ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Adventures of Pinocchio

    by Carlo Collodi, John Hooper, Anna Kraczyna ...
    Translated by John Hooper, Anna Kraczyna ...
    revelatory new edition of the most widely translated Italian book in the world--soon to be a Netflix animated feature film co-directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro and voiced by Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, Christoph Waltz, John Turturro, and Tilda SwintonA Penguin ClassicCarved from a piece of wood by the old carpenter Geppetto, the puppet Pinocchio comes to life and wants nothing more ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Blood Wedding

    Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

    by Federico García Lorca ...
    Translated by Jo Clifford ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Drama Classics
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceGarcía Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.Translated from the Spanish and introduced by one of Scotland's finest playwrights, Jo Clifford. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus