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Contempt | Alberto Moravia | Il disprezzo, known in English as Contempt or A Ghost At Noon, is an Italian existential novel by Alberto Moravia that came out in 1954. It was the basis for the 1963 film Le Mépris by Jean-Luc Godar… | OL14857433W |
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The Voyeur | Alberto Moravia | Edoardo, ex-left-wing militant turned professor of French, is a voyeur of life and love. Family and other problems haunt him, and he discovers that he has been unable to see for looking. By the Itali… | OL14857488W |
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Erotic tales | Alberto Moravia | Throughout these twenty erotic stories, peopled with a gallery of eccentric individuals, run the recurring themes of violence, sexual yearnings, frustration, boredom, and the bourgeoisie. | OL14857489W |
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1934 | Alberto Moravia | Moravia's political fable about an Italian anti-Fascist and the frightened, suicide-seeking German girl he encounters on a boat to Capri--the setting of Moravia's Il disprezzo from 1954--was welcomed… | OL14857498W |
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Great Short Stories of the World | Максим Горький,Colette,Frank O'Connor,Max Aub,Henry Lawson,Albert Camus,Corrado Alvaro,Robert Benchley,H. G. Wells,Isak Dinesen,Ernest Hemingway,Nigel Balchin,Sholem Aleichem,Katherine Anne Porter,Santha Rama Rau,Rabindranath Tagore,Mark Twain,Dorothy Parker,Leo Kennedy,Joseph Conrad,Антон Павлович Чехов,Dorothy L. Sayers,Aldous Huxley,David Herbert Lawrence,Graham Greene,Nadine Gordimer,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,Alberto Moravia,O. Henry,Rumer Godden,John O'Hara,Truman Capote,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Gabrielle Roy,Unknown,Sally Benson,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Doris Lessing,Wallace Stegner,Guy de Maupassat,James Joyce,Luigi Pirandello,Eudora Welty,William Somerset Maugham,Mikhail Zoshchenko,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Hernando Tellez,Pearl S. Buck,Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Montague Rhodes James,Paul Horgan,Saki,Thomas Head Raddall,Katherine Mansfield,Bertolt Brecht,Josh Gregory,Irwin Shaw,Marcel Aymé,Jean Stafford,Lilika Nakos,S. J. Perelman,Damon Runyon,Anatole France,Machado de Assis,Jessamyn West,Hjalmar Söderberg | The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak … | OL16048288W |
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Two women | Alberto Moravia | This story depicts a mother desperately struggling to shield her daughter from the horrors of World War 2, in this truly heartbreaking cinematic tragedy. | OL20896871W |
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Le quadrille des masques | Alberto Moravia | Grâce à la description d'un bal qui devient une mascarade, où les intrigues amoureuses se mêlent aux complots politiques et où le cynisme le dispute à la cruauté, Alberto Moravia livre une satire du … | OL24721911W |