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The Fall [Buy Direct]

by Albert Camus

The Outsider [Buy Direct]

by Albert Camus

Remorse [Buy Direct]

by Alba de Cespedes
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Rimorso

The Woman and the Priest, or the Mother [Buy Direct]

by Grazia Deledda
Translated by M.G. Steegman
Original title: La madre

Structured like a classical tragedy, this is a ‘Portrait in Black’ of the harrowing conflict between love and duty, between an individual and the law. The conflict occurs within the narrow confines of a Sardinian village, (more...)

After the Divorce [Buy Direct]

by Grazia Deledda
Translated by Susan Ashe
Original title: Dopo il divorzio

Cosima [Buy Direct]

by Grazia Deledda
Translated by Martha King
Original title: Cosima

Grazia Deledda was a noted writer of the 1920s from a poor corner of Sardinia and this is her only discernibly autobiographical work, where she tells the story of her childhood and youth, paying attention to interior realities as much as exterior ones. It’s a diary in the form of a novel, (more...)

Maria Zef [Buy Direct]

by Paola Drigo
Translated by B. Kirschenbaum
Original title: Maria Zef

House on Moon Lake [Buy Direct]

by Francesca Duranti
Translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Original title: La casa sul lago della luna

This is the story of a rare specimen: a male with a complicated, neurotic, ‘feminine’ character, who is both attracted to and repulsed by his strong and sensible modern girlfriend. (more...)

The Name of the Rose [Buy Direct]

by Umberto Eco
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Il nome della rosa

Foucault’s Pendulum [Buy Direct]

by Umberto Eco
Original title: Il pendolo di Foucault

That Awful Mess on the via Merulana [Buy Direct]

by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Me

Written in a polyphony of voices and dialects, Gadda’s detective stories are unique in Italian literature. This story is a real ‘mess’, dominated by the figure of an investigator, Doctor Francesco Ingravallo, (more...)

Family Sayings [Buy Direct]

by Natalia Ginzburg
Translated by D M Low
Original title: Il lessico famigliare

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