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From here, you can link to writings by American, Canadian, and English writers, aligned with the corresponding Italian translation, as well as to writings by Italian writers aligned with the corresponding English translation. The publication of the source texts has been authorized by the publishers/owners for educational purposes. Commercial use remains forbidden. I'll be adding new texts as I find the time; so drop in again soon.
GREAT AMERICAN WRITERS
Mark Twain (1906)
Letters from the Earth
Doubtless the most hilarious and stinging work of "America's Greatest Humorist."
Philip Roth (1969)
Portnoy's Complaint
The groundbreaking novel that propelled its author to literary stardom.
Raymond Carver (1988)
Blackbird Pie
From the collection Where I'm Calling From, one of the last short stories by this great American writer.
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GREAT ITALIAN WRITERS
Carlo Collodi (1881)
The Adventures of Pinocchio
An unabridged translation of Italy's greatest children's novel.
Alberto Moravia (1929)
The Indifferent Ones
The portrait of a twenty‐year‐old man dragged into the undoing of a middle‐class family as well
as of a nation; and fascism, which elevates the modern snare of indifference to absolute existential condition.
Andrea Camilleri (2013)
A Nest of Vipers
The accountant Cosimo Barletta, womanizer and loan shark, is killed in an inexplicable and senseless manner.
Vigàta police department chief Montalbano looks into the impenetrable secrets of a family as well as
into the mysteries of a community.
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GREAT CANADIAN WRITERS
Mordecai Richler (1959)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Duddy Kravitz believed what his grandfather had told him: a man without land is nobody.
He set his heart on land, and if he made himself hated on the way... he couldn't care less.
Alice Munro (1959)
Boys and Girls
My father was a fox farmer. That is, he raised silver foxes,...
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GREAT ENGLISH WRITERS
Lewis Carroll (1865)
Alice in Wonderland
When Alice follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole, she finds herself
in the enchanted world of Wonderland, where nothing is as it seems...
Malcolm Lowry (1947)
Under the Volcano
The story of one man's agonized journey towards Calvary, which became a
prophetic book for a whole generation.