Sunday, July 20, 2008

'Simonetta Perkins' by Leslie P. Hartley

Simonetta Perkins
by Leslie Poles Hartley
Rome: Nottetempo
Released: July 20, 2008
A new and very elegant translation into Italian by Sergio Parussa (Wellesley College)

Lavinia Johnstone, a young and wealthy Bostonian, arrives with her mother in Venice, and falls in love with a gondolier. She starts to write a diary under the assumed name of Simonetta Perkins.

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