Evening Descends Upon The Hills

Author : Anna Maria Ortese
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1782273360
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evening Descends Upon the Hills written by Anna Maria Ortese and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic stories and reportage set in Naples in the 1940s and 50s that inspired Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels A highly evocative classic set in Italy's most vibrant and turbulent metropolis in the immediate aftermath of World War Two. Anna Maria Ortese was one of the most celebrated and original Italian writers of the Twentieth Century. Her stories and reportage, collected in this volume, form a powerful portrait of ordinary lives, both high and low, family dramas, love affairs, and struggles to pay the rent, set against the crumbling courtyards of the city itself, and the dramatic landscape of Naples Bay.

Author : Anna Maria Ortese
Publisher : New Vessel Press
ISBN 13 : 1939931568
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neapolitan Chronicles written by Anna Maria Ortese and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the city, it comprises a mix of masterful storytelling and piercing journalism. This book, with its unforgettable portrait of Naples high and low, is also a stunning literary companion to the great neorealist films of the era by directors such as Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. From an author who has won most of Italy’s major literary prizes and served as “a major inspiration for Elana Ferrante,” Neapolitan Chronicles is exquisitely rendered in English by acclaimed translators Ann Goldstein and Jenny McPhee (The New York Times). Included in the collection is “A Pair of Eyeglasses,” one of the most widely praised Italian short stories of the last century. “Elena Ferrante has cited Ortese as one of her greatest influences . . . This collection of short stories and essays [infuses] a grimy, chaotic Naples with unsentimental menace.” —The New Yorker “A writer of exceptional prowess and force. The stories collected in this volume, which reverberate with Chekhovian energy and melancholy, are revered in Italy by writers and readers alike.” —Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Interpreter of Maladies

Author : Martin Conway
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691204594
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Europe’s Democratic Age written by Martin Conway and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century What happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe's Democratic Age, Martin Conway provides an innovative new account of how a stable, durable, and remarkably uniform model of parliamentary democracy emerged in Western Europe—and how this democratic ascendancy held fast until the latter decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Conway describes how Western Europe's postwar democratic order was built by elite, intellectual, and popular forces. Much more than the consequence of the defeat of fascism and the rejection of Communism, this democratic order rested on universal male and female suffrage, but also on new forms of state authority and new political forces—primarily Christian and social democratic—that espoused democratic values. Above all, it gained the support of the people, for whom democracy provided a new model of citizenship that reflected the aspirations of a more prosperous society. This democratic order did not, however, endure. Its hierarchies of class, gender, and race, which initially gave it its strength, as well as the strains of decolonization and social change, led to an explosion of demands for greater democratic freedoms in the 1960s, and to the much more contested democratic politics of Europe in the late twentieth century. Western Europe's Democratic Age is a compelling history that sheds new light not only on the past of European democracy but also on the unresolved question of its future.

Author : Edward Dowden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley written by Edward Dowden and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141985623
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century. Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and dramatic political events. This wide-ranging selection curated by Jhumpa Lahiri includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating new discoveries. More than a third of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, several of them by Lahiri herself.

Author : Luise von Flotow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351658050
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism and Gender written by Luise von Flotow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism and Gender provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of feminism and gender awareness in translation and translation studies today. Bringing together work from more than 20 different countries – from Russia to Chile, Yemen, Turkey, China, India, Egypt and the Maghreb as well as the UK, Canada, the USA and Europe – this Handbook represents a transnational approach to this topic, which is in development in many parts of the world. With 41 chapters, this book presents, discusses, and critically examines many different aspects of gender in translation and its effects, both local and transnational. Providing overviews of key questions and case studies of work currently in progress, this Handbook is the essential reference and resource for students and researchers of translation, feminism, and gender.

Author : Vilma De Gasperin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199673810
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loss and the Other in the Visionary Work of Anna Maria Ortese written by Vilma De Gasperin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines theme and genre analysis in a study of the Italian author, from her first literary writings in the 1930s to her novels in the 1990s.

Author : Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treasury of David written by Charles Haddon Spurgeon and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
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Download or read book Psalm 125-150 written by Charles Haddon Spurgeon and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
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Download or read book The Treasury of David: Psalm CXXV to CL written by Charles Haddon Spurgeon and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: