Unmarried Women: Stories (European Classics),Used

Unmarried Women: Stories (European Classics),Used

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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. A great observer of life, Serao focused her writing directly on the most pressing problems of a newly unified Italy, urban poverty, and the North/South divide. Historian and critic Benedetto Croce said of her that she had an 'imagination that is limpid and alive'; Nobel Laureate Giosu Carducci called her the greatest woman writer in Italy; and Gabriele D'Annunzio dedicated a novel to her. She was apparently on the short list for the Nobel Prize in 1926, which ultimately went to the Sardinian writer Grazia Deledda.This collection, the first to make Seraos short stories available in English translation, reflects this naturalistic writers interest in the everyday drama of the lives of women in the Italy of her day. In Seraos spare and simple prose, the young women of turnofthecentury Naples come to life, negotiating the details of school and work, church and marriage, in a world circumscribed by fathers and chaperones, fiancs and bosses. Infused with the writers deep sense of humanity, their quietly involving storiesat once so poetic and so ordinaryattest to the transformative power of literature, and to the promise that even the most humble life holds.

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