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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.

Excerpt from In the Country of Jesus The second, but less common sort Of traveller, is he whose sole Object is the search after the picturesque, he is possessed by a mania for the discovery Of exquisite views and new and picturesque colouring, the country, the sea, the town, the churches, the people, all interest and delight him. His brain is a picture gallery and his imagination a Cinematograph, the ever Changing scenes of which he soon reta...

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Excerpt from The Conquest of Rome (La Conquista Di Roma)But the man alone was not sleeping. He lay at full length on the cushions, his eyes were closed, one arm supported his neck, and the other hand was thrust within his coat. But his face had not the peaceful ex pression of repose, as the features were contracted in thought.After the train had begun to move again, and had passed out into the open country, the traveler opened his eyes and cha...

Loreta Leoni e Carletto Valli sono pronti a rimanere uniti sotto il fuoco nemico. Marta Ardore vive con l'angoscia di perdere il figlio come già le successe col marito. E poi c'è Don Lanfranchi, che non vuole cedere al dio biblico delle battaglie, crede nel Cristo della pace e della solidarietà e decide di abbandonare tutto per tenere fede ai propri principi. Come un incubo, sulle teste dei protagonisti di questo romanzo corale incombe la mina...

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Spesso considerata, con tono benevolo e sprezzante, "un reportage", il capolavoro della Serao ha la forza della verità che si fa letteratura, del rifiuto per quella "retorichetta a base di golfo e colline fiorite che serve per quella parte di pubblico che non vuole essere seccata con racconti di miserie". La sua denuncia resta, a un secolo di distanza, di straordinaria attualità: "Questo ventre di Napoli, se non lo conosce il ...

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Excerpt from San Gennaro: Nella Leggenda e nella VitaGiacchè anche fra i santi vi è un destino non di maggior gloria nel Cielo, perchè tutti vi hanno la medesima gloria, ma di maggior gloria sulla terra? Chi mai dirà il vero mo mento e la vera ragione, in cui una di queste grandi figure 0 di queste modeste piccole.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comTh...

Excerpt from Piccolo Romanzo Ella guardava il fragile fiore che si agitava nelle mani del bel principe: e un sottile brivido di terrore la invadeva lentamente. Ora il bel principe indifferente e freddo aveva fissato il fiore, quasi avesse voluto contarne i petali bianchi, dove si contiene la parola del destino, e avendo cavato dalla tasca un portafoglino molle, di seta rosea, accorciò il gambo del fiore, e lo chiuse fra le pieghe, come in una...

Excerpt from Fantasy The most prominent imaginative writer of the latest generation in Italy is a woman. What little is known of the private life of Matilde Serao adds, as forcibly as what may be divined from the tenour and material of her books, to the impression that every student of literary history must have formed of the difficulties which hem in the intellectual development of an ambitious girl. Without unusual neglect, unusual misfor t...

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Un libro che ha rievocato ricordi su Napoli. Le sue strade e le sue virtù. In un tempo in cui la danza poteva essere passione e professione anche per il prolietariato. E l'amore che termina in tragedia. "Così cominciava, nella notte d'inverno, la veglia funebre di Ferdinando Terzi conte di Torregrande, nella lurida stanza della Pension Suisse, fra il sangue del suicidio, assistito dal pianto, dai singulti, dalle interrotte parole di amore e di...

Excerpt from Farewell Love: A Novel Literature, however, was the profession she designed to excel in, and she showed herself a realist at once. Her earliest story, if I do not mistake, was that minute picture of the vicissitudes of a post-othee which is named T elegraplzi ale/lo Stato (state She worked with extreme energy, she taught herself shorthand, and in 1878 she quitted the post-office to become a reporter and a journalist. To give hers...

Excerpt from After the Pardon Donna maria guasco simonetti, gracefully stretched on the sofa and immersed in the many soft cushions of all kinds of fabrics and colours, was reading alone. A steady light, opalised by the clear transparent silk of a large shade, was diffused from the tall pedestal at her side, on which was placed a quaint lamp of chased silver, so that the reader's head, with her thick mass of chestnut hair, attired almost in h...

Excerpt from The Desire of Life "We shall not arrive before half-past eleven, " said Vittorio Lante, in a low voice. "Not before, " affirmed Lucio Sabini, in the same tone. Both were smoking cigarettes: fine smoke shadows, not clouds, scarcely floated round their faces, as their carriage continued to ascend, to the calm and regular paces of the horses, along the accustomed road, the long road that climbs, amidst a continual renewing of small...

Excerpt from The Conquest of Rome The train stopped. "Capua! Capua!" three or four voices cried monotonously into the night. A clanking of swords dragged on the ground was heard, and some lively muttering that passed between a Lombard and a Piedmontese. It came from a group of subaltern officers, who were ending their evening's amusement in coming to see the night train from Naples to Rome pass through. While the conductor chatted respectfu...