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Checchina’s Virtue

  • Matilde Serao
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Writing to Delight
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© 2016 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

© 2016 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Introduction. Scenes from Nineteenth-Century Italy: Delightful Stories on Those Long, Long Winter Evenings 1
  4. Checchina’s Virtue 19
  5. Paolina 58
  6. Aunt Severina 74
  7. The Lady of the Evening 81
  8. Winter Evenings 85
  9. Learn a Trade for a Rainy Day 93
  10. Dear Hope 117
  11. The Bread of the Departed 126
  12. The Caning 144
  13. The Coral Necklace 165
  14. Woes of the Middle Class 173
  15. Scorn for Life 187
  16. Afterword. Ladies, Chickens, and Queens: The Strong Voices of Italian Women Writers 191
  17. Bio-bibliographies of the Authors 199
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442683754-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Introduction. Scenes from Nineteenth-Century Italy: Delightful Stories on Those Long, Long Winter Evenings 1
  4. Checchina’s Virtue 19
  5. Paolina 58
  6. Aunt Severina 74
  7. The Lady of the Evening 81
  8. Winter Evenings 85
  9. Learn a Trade for a Rainy Day 93
  10. Dear Hope 117
  11. The Bread of the Departed 126
  12. The Caning 144
  13. The Coral Necklace 165
  14. Woes of the Middle Class 173
  15. Scorn for Life 187
  16. Afterword. Ladies, Chickens, and Queens: The Strong Voices of Italian Women Writers 191
  17. Bio-bibliographies of the Authors 199
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