Project Gutenberg 2023-04-17 Public domain in the USA. 202 Patten, William 1868 1936 Short story classics (Foreign), Vol. 2, Italian and Scandinavian $aUnited States :$bP. F. Collier & Son, $c1907. The lost letter, by Enrico Castelnuovo -- Cavalleria rusticana, by Giovanni Verga -- The silver crucifix, by Antonio Fogazzaro -- The little Sardinian drummer, by Edmondo de Amicis -- Lulu's triumph, by Matilda Serao -- The end of Candia, by Gabriele d'Annunzio -- Signora Speranza, by Luigi Pirandello -- Two men and a woman, by Grazia Deledda -- Railroad and churchyard, by Björnstjerne Björnson -- Björn Sivertsen's wedding trip, byt Holger Drachmann -- Jalo the trotter, by Johann Jacob Ahrenberg -- The plague at Bergamo, by Jens Peter Jacobsen -- Karen, by Alexander Lange Kielland -- Love and bread, by Jean August Strindberg -- Irene Holm, by Hermann, Joachim Bang -- The outlaws, by Selma Lagerlöf. Andrés V. Galia, Susan (susanskinner), María Cristina F. Q. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Short Story Classics (Foreign), Vol. 2, Italian and Scandinavian" by William Patten is a collection of short stories compiled in the early 20th century. The anthology features works from notable Italian and Scandinavian authors, showcasing various themes and narratives that reflect cultural and societal aspects of their times. Among the stories included, the opening selection, “The Lost Letter” by Enrico Castelnuovo, introduces Professor Attilio Cernieri, an accomplished Egyptologist, whose life becomes entangled with memories of a lost love due to a forgotten letter from his youth. At the start of the collection, readers meet Professor Cernieri as he receives a long-awaited shipment of books, among which he discovers an old, unopened letter addressed to Maria Lisa Altavilla, a woman who once captivated his heart. The discovery forces him to confront the past and the feelings he suppressed over two decades. As memories resurface, Cernieri reflects on what might have been had he sent the letter, stirring a poignant mix of regret, nostalgia, and the realization of lost opportunities. The unfolding narrative hints at a deeper exploration of themes related to love, memory, and the choices that shape one’s life, setting the tone for the unique stories that follow in the anthology. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/shortstoryclassi02pattrich/page/330/mode/2up 20200525124101patten 1907 US Reading ease score: 79.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Short stories, Scandinavian -- Translations into English Italian fiction -- Translations into English Short stories, Italian -- Translations into English Scandinavian fiction -- Translations into English PQ PT Text Category: Short Stories 545575 2025-06-28T05:11:58.436720 text/html 542926 2023-06-24T22:05:26 text/html 5053419 2025-06-28T05:12:07.246734 application/epub+zip 5051592 2025-06-28T05:12:00.099755 application/epub+zip 366011 2025-06-28T05:11:59.229729 application/epub+zip 5173344 2025-06-28T05:12:12.352679 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 5128200 2025-06-28T05:12:06.392719 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 493089 2025-06-28T05:11:56.880794 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 492876 2023-06-24T22:06:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19408 2025-06-28T05:12:12.501645 application/rdf+xml 21006 2025-06-28T05:11:59.390697 image/jpeg 3163 2025-06-28T05:11:59.308704 image/jpeg 192029 2023-06-24T22:07:08 application/octet-stream application/zip 5052124 2023-06-24T22:07:02 application/octet-stream application/zip 5070606 2025-06-28T05:11:58.598768 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog