Italian Short Stories (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Italian Short Stories

The six stories here printed have been chosen as excel lent in themselves, as representative of the leading modern Italian short story writers, and as aflording varied pic tures of life in different parts of Italy. The order in which they are arranged serves in general to indicate their rel ative difliculty, besides giving piece aux dames. The first two stories are simple in wording and in construction, and in order to make them available for effective use at the beginning of a course they have been given very full grammatical notes, and the irregular verb forms which occur in them (except the forms of (were and essere) have been separately entered in the vocabulary. The texts have been taken from current Italian editions, and no changes have been made in them except for the corree tion of obvious errors. The introductions dealing with Serao, Deledda, Fucini, and d'annunzio are by Mr. Altroc chi. The other two introductions and the notes are by.

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