Product Description: A Classic Italian Historical NovelCOMPLETE CLASSICSI Promessi SposiThe BetrothedAlessandro ManzoniThe Betrothed is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, first published in 1827, in three volumes. It has been called the most famous and widely read novel of the Italian language...read more

Initially published in 1947, the first novel by one of the twentieth-century's most famous literary figures--which paints a portrait of a dissolute Italian resistance fighter against the Nazis--includes previously censored passages and the author's newly translated, unabridged preface. Reprint.

First published in 1947, the first novel by one of the twentieth-century's most famous literary figures--a portrait of a dissolute Italian resistance fighter against the Nazis--includes previously censored passages and his newly translated preface.

Product Description: Mario Rigoni Stern was barely twenty-one and already a battle veteran at the time of the World War II disaster he describes in The Sergeant in the Snow. In July 1942 three divisions of Italian Alpini troops, specially trained for winter warfare, began retreating--entirely on foot, with no supplies, at temperatures of 30-40 degrees below zero...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Siren and Selected Writings (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Facing up to the social changes in nineteenth century Italy, an elderly aristocrat arranges a marriage between his daughter and a wealthy merchant