Short Story Classics (Foreign), Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Enrico Casielnuovo, who was bom at Florence in 1839, is one of the earliest of Italian writers of the modern short story, and a link between the group of poets, dramatists, and novelists, beginning with Mansoni (1785-1873)9 and the group of his own immediate contemporaries, including Carduccl, Fogazzaro, BarriK, Farina, Verga, DA nnunzio, De A micis, Serao, and other disciples of Carducci. His literary career began with a little romance called quaderno delta sia ;U struck not only his first note of popularity, but the rich vein of hrs talent, which consists in minute observation and keen dramatic insight, softened by a sympathetic, almost sentimental, style a rare combination traced from his first little romance to his later volumes of short stories, and especially marked in the story given here, The Lost Letter.
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