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eBooks by Alberto Moravia

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  • The Conformist

    by Alberto Moravia ...
    Series series Italia
    Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with his secret work for the Italian political police during the Mussolini years. But then he is assigned ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Agostino

    by Alberto Moravia ...
    Translated by Michael F. Moore ...
    Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. Though repelled by their squalor and brutality, and repeatedly humiliated for his weakness and ignorance when it comes to women and sex, the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Contempt

    Translated by Angus Davidson ...
    by Alberto Moravia ...
    Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous—his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking openness about sex—are evident in this story of a failing marriage. Contempt (which was to inspire Jean ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Boredom

    Translated by Angus Davidson ...
    by Alberto Moravia ...
    The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society. Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity. ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • The Woman of Rome

    by Alberto Moravia ...
    Translated by Tami Calliope ...
    Series series Italia
    The glitter and cynicism of Rome under Mussolini provide the background of what is probably Alberto Moravia’s best and best-known novel — The Woman of Rome. It’s the story of Adriana, a simple girl with no fortune but her beauty who models naked for a painter, accepts gifts from men, and could never quite identify the moment when she traded her private dream of home and children for the life of a ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Conjugal Love

    A Novel

    by Alberto Moravia ...
    Translated by Marina Harss ...
    To begin with I’d like to talk about my wife. To love means, in addition to many other things, to delight in gazing upon and observing the beloved.--From Conjugal LoveWhen Silvio, a rich Italian dilettante, and his beautiful wife agree to move to the country and forgo sex so that he will have the energy to write a successful novel, something is bound to go wrong: Silvio’s literary ambitions are ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

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    by Natsume Soseki ...
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  • Suspicion

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    by Seicho Matsumoto ...
    Translated by Jesse Kirkwood ...
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  • Evil Genius

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    "[A] noir delight of a novel . . . . Evil Genius is deceptively light on its feet, skittering across the page to deliver its scorpion sting.”— New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)A Recommended Read from: Alta * Bustle * Electric Literature * Forbes * LitHub * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * New York Times * People * VultureIt’s 1974 and San Francisco is full of mystery and menace. Nineteen ... Read more

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  • Distant Star

    by Roberto Bolaño ...
    Translated by Chris Andrews ...
    “[One] of his best.” —Daniel Zalewski, The New Yorker“A masterpiece.” —Los Angeles TimesThe year is 1971, or perhaps 1972, in Salvador Allende’s Chile. Arturo B. is just one of a motley crew of young bohemians attending Juan Stein’s poetry workshop at the University of Concepción when a mysterious newcomer by the name of Alberto Ruiz-Tagle arrives. Though Alberto’s taciturn manner, patrician airs, ... Read more

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    The History and Future of the Wind

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  • Python's Kiss

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    From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich, a captivating collection of short storiesIt was as though I was chosen—marked out by the python’s kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of experience. Also, I hoped for a long life.Written over the past two decades, Louise Erdrich’s magnificent story collection ... Read more

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