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Unmarried Women
Matilde Serao
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Paperback. Matilde Serao is widely regarded as the most successful Italian woman journalist of the nineteenth century as well as being an important writer of fiction. This collection makes Serao's short stories available in English translation, and reflects her interest in the everyday drama of the lives of women in the Italy of her day. Translator(s): Paige, Paula. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 236.
Matilde Serao is widely regarded as the most successful Italian woman journalist of the nineteenth century as well as being an important writer of fiction. A great observer of life, Serao focused her writing directly on the most pressing problems of a newly unified Italy, urban poverty, and the North/South divide. Historian and critic Benedetto Croce said of her that she had an ""imagination that is limpid and alive""; Nobel Laureate Giosue Carducci called her the greatest woman writer in Italy; and Gabriele D'Annunzio dedicated a novel to her. This collection, the first to make Serao's short stories available in ... Read more
Matilde Serao is widely regarded as the most successful Italian woman journalist of the nineteenth century as well as being an important writer of fiction. A great observer of life, Serao focused her writing directly on the most pressing problems of a newly unified Italy, urban poverty, and the North/South divide. Historian and critic Benedetto Croce said of her that she had an ""imagination that is limpid and alive""; Nobel Laureate Giosue Carducci called her the greatest woman writer in Italy; and Gabriele D'Annunzio dedicated a novel to her. This collection, the first to make Serao's short stories available in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810124042
SKU
V9780810124042
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Ref
99-15
About Matilde Serao
Matilde Serao (1856-1927) published more than forty books, wrote a very popular newspaper column, and, with her husband, the Neapolitan journalist Eduardo Scarfoglio, raised four children and founded three newspapers, one of which, Il Mattino, is still the largest Neapolitan daily. Paula Paige is an adjunct professor emerita of Romance languages and literatures at Wesleyan University. She is also the ... Read more
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