Features Italian crime writers who present nine short-stories with settings ranging from Milan to Palermo by way of Rome and even Guadeloupe. This work includes tales of ordinary criminals: a drug-addled cosmetic surgeon, inept blackmailers and various other low-lifes lusting after easy money.

Product Description: Italy’s rising literary stars join some of its best-known writers — including Nobel-laureate Luigi Pirandello, Natalia Ginzburg, Alberto Moravia, and Antonio Tabucchi — to take the reader on a panoramic tour of both city and countryside, across the social spectrum, surveying the country’s rich cultural history...read more

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Provides an inside account of the shocking bankruptcy of the two-hundred-year-old British bank and the twenty-eight-year-old rogue trader in Singapore who caused its collapse. Reprint. PW. (view table of contents)

Product Description: First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides an inside account of the shocking bankruptcy of the two-hundred-year-old British bank and the twenty-eight-year-old rogue trader in Singapore who caused its collapse. Reprint. PW.

Product Description: During the sixteenth century collections of translations of novelle by Boccaccio, Bandello and others were very popular in England and had a great influence on native English works ranging from the plays of Shakespeare and Spenser's Faerie Queene to the first English novels...read more

Product Description: The Novellino is an anonymous collection of 100 short stories and anecdotes in Italian written sometime before 1300 A.D. It is a vast and true panorama of the Middle Ages. The Novellino describes every level of Italian life, from the common peasant to the emperor Frederick II, emphasizing the importance of wit, intelligence and quick thinking...read more

Features short stories from Italy, including Pia Fontana's 'Phobia' and Vincenzo Consolo's 'The Photographer'

A collection of stories by Italian women authors once widely read then lost to view in Italy under fascist rule during the 1920s and 30s

An anthology of Italian fiction includes such authors as Umberto Eco, Dino Buzzati, Natalia Ginzburg, and Vitaliano Brancati

The eleven short stories in this prize-winning collection pivot on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays the decisive role in the protagonists' lives? The eleven short stories in this prize-winning collection pivot on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays the decisive role in the protagonists' lives? Blended with the author's wonderfully intelligent imagination is his compassionate perception of elemental aspects of the human experience, be it grief as in "Waiting for Winter," about the widow of a nation's literary lion, or madcap adventure as in "The Riddle," about a mysterious lady and a trip in Proust's Bugatti Royale. (view table of contents)

Short stories deal with topics including a mother's reminiscences of her son, life in a F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, and the reversal of art and life

Product Description: Nobel Prize Winner Luigi Pirandello set out to write one short story per day for one whole year. Death kept him from fulfilling that goal; nevertheless, he came close to achieving it. Although there are several themes in the collection, the one on madness and the one on suicide seem to stand out...read more