Italian short stories (Penguin Books)

The eight stories in this collection, aby Moravian, Pavese, Pratolina, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal rather than literary, and there are notes and biographies to help the student of Italian. However, the volume can also be helpful to Italians, who can improve their English aby studying a strict rendering of stories with which thet may already be familiar.