Short Stories for a Year, by Luigi Pirandello 🇮🇹🖋️🇺🇸

Luigi Pirandello, the Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright, novelist, and short story writer, is widely celebrated for his profound exploration of identity, reality, and human psychology. Despite his substantial influence on 20th-century literature and drama, much of his work, especially his short stories, remains underexplored in the English-speaking world. This new translation of a selection of Pirandello’s short stories aims to bridge this gap, offering readers … Continue reading Short Stories for a Year, by Luigi Pirandello 🇮🇹🖋️🇺🇸

Dark Love Sonnets, by Federico García Lorca ✒️🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Today, June 5, marks the 127th anniversary of the birth of Federico García Lorca — poet, playwright, visionary. To celebrate it, we publish the expanded edition of our ebook with the complete English translation of his two great posthumous collections: Dark Love Sonnets and Diván del Tamarit. Verses written in the fire of his last years, never published during his life, never forgotten. If you haven’t met Lorca in English yet, this is the right time. Continue reading Dark Love Sonnets, by Federico García Lorca ✒️🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Foglie d’erba, di Walt Whitman 🇺🇸✒️🇮🇹

Walt Whitman è stato un poeta americano e un umanista. È considerato uno dei poeti più influenti degli Stati Uniti. La sua poesia era un riflesso dei suoi pensieri e sentimenti sulla democrazia, la natura, la sessualità, la morte e molti altri argomenti. Mentre commemoriamo l’anniversario della nascita di Walt Whitman, è un momento per riflettere sul profondo impatto che questa figura imponente ha avuto … Continue reading Foglie d’erba, di Walt Whitman 🇺🇸✒️🇮🇹

Jonathan Livingstone Seagull 📖🐦🛩

🇬🇧 When I read this book for the first time I was a teenager and eager to find inspiration for adventurous outlooks in life. Forty years later the great philosophy behind the book seems to be very thin, simplistic and no longer a source of great inspiration, as it was at first sight. Probably this is one of those books which is son of its … Continue reading Jonathan Livingstone Seagull 📖🐦🛩

Paul Street Boys 📚👦🏻🇭🇺

🇬🇧 Paul Street Boys by Molnar was a delightful rediscover in preparation for my first visit to Budapest. The choice inevitably fell on a book that I had not taken into my hands for forty years. What a thrill to relive the vicissitudes of the two groups of teenagers fighting each other for the use of a pitch for afternoon games. Even at the time … Continue reading Paul Street Boys 📚👦🏻🇭🇺

The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles 🐦🤵🏻📖

🇬🇧 The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles –  Intrigue, sex and magic are fabulous ingredients for a successful and engaging novel, with the additional edge of being set against a contrasting Victorian background. My first book of the “Charm of Magpies” series and by the author, but I’m pretty sure I’ll cast my eyes on other episodes very soon.    🇮🇹 Il Signore delle gazze … Continue reading The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles 🐦🤵🏻📖

La délicatesse 💘📖🇫🇷

https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-49025203-2 window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag(‘js’, new Date()); gtag(‘config’, ‘UA-49025203-2’); 🇫🇷 J’ai aimé le film et j’ai aimé le livre, peut-être même plus. L’intrigue du livre décrit le voyage hors du doeuil pour Nathalie et sa lente redécouverte de l’amour et des relations humaines, avec délicatesse. Un vrai plaisir pour les amoureux du livre avec une histoire tendre remplie d’humour et de … Continue reading La délicatesse 💘📖🇫🇷