Italian Short Stories 3/6

This is the third book in the series of Penguin Parallel Texts - a companion to Soviet Short Stories and German Short Stories. The eight stories in this collection, by Moravia, Pavese, Pratolini, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal than literary, and there are notes and bibliographies of the writers to help student of Italian. However, the volume can also be helpful to Italians, who can improve their English by studying a strict rendering of stories with which they may already be familiar. Cover design by Germano Facetti