Product Description: Incorporating distinct traditions and styles of crime writing, the three novellas in Judges are united by a theme of idealistic judges in an often futile struggle against crime and corruption.Andrea Camilleri's novella recounts the charming Judge Surra...read more

Product Description: AN ENGAGING INTRODUCTION TO A CULTURAL GIANTLong before it became an Italian offshore island, Sicily was the land in the center of the Mediterranean where the great civilizations of Europe and Northern Africa met. In ancient times it was the scene of conflicts between Carthaginians, Greeks and Romans and there are still more, better preserved Greek temples in Sicily than in the whole of mainland Greece...read more

Product Description: This Student Edition of Goldoni's classic 18th century play, A Servant to Two Masters, features expert and helpful annotation, ideal for anyone studying or performing the play. Editor Joseph Farrell's accessible Introduction includes a plot synopsis, a commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, as well a list of suggested reading, questions for further study and a review of performance history...read more

Product Description: An uproarious new version of Dario Fo's frenetic farce Can't Pay? Won't Pay! which, although set in Italy, has an all too familiar ring to it. Housewives Antonia and Margherita, fed up with high prices in the supermarket, take matters into their own hands and start shoplifting...read more

Product Description: As a writer, Carlo Levi has had the misfortune to be known as the author of one book, Christ Stopped at Eboli, the account of his years of internal banishment by the Fascist authorities to a remote village in the south of Italy. That book was recognised as a masterpiece of anti-Fascist literature and as a sensitive investigation of the way of life of a people at the margins of European civilisation...read more

In an enchanting memoir of his formative years, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright describes his youth in northern Italy in a picturesque village on the shores of Lago Maggiore, the struggles between Fascists and partisans in the region, the World War II years, and the anecdotes, characters, and sketches that became the inspiration for his own work. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Primo Levi has been identified in the public mind as the supreme witness to the barbarism that was the Nazi Holocaust but he was ambivalent about having that role thrust upon him. He also wished to be judged as a writer who, in addition to the autobiographical works on his experiences in the death camps, wrote poetry, produced volumes of sci-fi stories, authored novels and contributed critical essays to newspapers on a range of topics and writers...read more

Product Description: Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But theyare not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has notyet been written. Trapped inside a traumatic event from which they longto escape, they desperately need a writer to complete their story andrelease them...read more

Product Description: The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyzes their effect on how Latin literature is read...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The fifth edition of Cultural Anthropology continues to focus on the text's two major objectives. First, it presents a holistic view of sociocultural systems, and secondly, the text provides a unified theoretical framework for explaining these systems. It also remains faithful to the belief that anthropologists must routinely deal with facts and theories that are crucial to informed decisions regarding issues of enduring relevance. The cultural approach used throughout furnishes students with a framework for explaining how the parts of sociocultural systems are interrelated and how they change over time.The text also continues in its effort to identify the many causal strands that help explain the process of sociocultural change. It tries to make sense of the many seemingly irrational or arbitrary customs and institutions in small, technologically simple societies as well as complex nations. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This text prepares readers for the writing skills needed in their personal and business lives by focusing on the functional use of the language. It contains authentic writing models and realia from magazines, newspapers and ads. Each writing skill is taught within a cultural and functional context...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume discusses the work of the comic playwright Carlo Goldoni in 18th-century Italian theatre. It includes articles on Goldoni's libretti for opera seria, and analyses of "Il Feudatorio" and "Il Due Gemelli Veneziani".

Product Description: An anthology of writings in Italian which examine the origins, nature and culture of the Sicilian mafia. Separate chapters are devoted to the culture from which the mafia emerged, the economic and business activities in which it is now engaged, its relations with politics and politicians, as well as its structure and historical evolution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In eight elegant narratives exploring the experience of flying, the author relives his first solo flight, his coming to understand the laws of aviation, and his encounter with an airliner that mysteriously disappeared. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Take-off: almost a ton of inert matter transformed by the pilot as it lifts off the runway into a thing of spirit and beauty. Take-off: lifting one's shadow off the earth, entering a new element where movement is the very condition for existence, for, as the author observes, "in life, to choose the wrong wife or the wrong lift is conventionally viewed as being matters of varying gravity, but in piloting an aircraft an act of petty oversight, due to the obvious but decisive fact that in flight there can be no stopping, could be fatal...read more

Product Description: Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia, popular worldwide for his detective stories, was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize. Farrell examines the ways in which dark aspects of Sicilian life and the Mafia deeply affected Sciascia's work.

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Product Description: Composed of narrative, letters, depositions and fragments, this novel evokes the hopes, despairs, false starts and brutal ends of a struggle for change during the Risorgimento, when Garibaldi landed in Sicily in 1860 and common folk believed social justice would follow. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this important and original new book, Joseph Farrell argues that there is a detailed and extensive program of literary allusion in Vergil's Georgics, moving basically from Hesiod and Aratus in the first book, to Lucretius in the middle two, to Homer in the fourth...read more