The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Note on the Citation of Titles and Their Translations
ELIO VITTORINI
Name and Tears
GIOVANNI VERGA
Picturesque Lives
GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA
The Siren
ANTONIO TABUCCHI
Against Time
ITALO SVEVO
Generous Wine
LEONARDO SCIASCIA
The Long Voyage
ALBERTO SAVINIO
Bago
UMBERTO SABA
The Hen
LALLA ROMANO
The Lady
FABRIZIA RAMONDINO
The Tower
LUIGI PIRANDELLO
The Trap
CESARE PAVESE
Wedding Trip
GOFFREDO PARISE
Melancholy
ALDO PALAZZESCHI
Silence
ANNA MARIA ORTESE
A Pair of Eyeglasses
ALBERTO MORAVIA
The Other Side of the Moon
ELSA MORANTE
The Ambitious Ones
GIORGIO MANGANELLI
Sixteen, Twenty-one, Twenty-eight and Thirty-seven
from Centuria
PRIMO LEVI
Quaestio de Centauris
TOMMASO LANDOLFI
Gogol's Wife
NATALIA GINZBURG
My Husband.
CARLO EMILIO GADDA
The Mother
ENNIO FLAIANO
A Martian in Rome
BEPPE FENOGLIO
The Smell of Death
LUCE D'ERAMO
Life as a Couple
ANTONIO DELFINI
The Milliner
GRAZIA DELEDDA
The Hind
ALBA DE C^SPEDES
Invitation to Dinner
SILVIO D'ARZO
Elegy for Signora Nodier
FAUSTA CIALENTE
Malpasso
CARLO CASSOLA
At the Station
CRISTINA CAMPO
The Golden Nut
ITALO CALVINO
Dialogue with a Tortoise
DINO BUZZATI
And Yet They Are Knocking at Your Door
MASSIMO BONTEMPELLI
The Miraculous Beach, or, Prize for Modesty
ROMANO BILENCHI
A Geographical Error
LUCIANO BIANCIARDI
The Streetwalker
ANNA BANTI
Miss
GIOVANNI ARPINO
The Baboon
CORRADO ALVARO
Barefoot
Notes
Chronology
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
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