An edition of L'isola di Arturo (1957)

Arturo's island

a novel

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An edition of L'isola di Arturo (1957)

Arturo's island

a novel

1st Steerforth ed.

by

  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 23 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

"On a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, there lives a boy as innocent of sin and the great world as a seabird. Arturo's mother is dead; his father away - we are never quite sure where. Black-clad women care for him, run the house, give him the freedom to come and go as he likes.Then the father returns from the mainland with a new wife, Nunziata, who is in fact a girl barely older than Arturo himself.

At first hatred and contempt are all the boy feels for his stepmother, but she responds differently and soon his hatred is replaced by feelings that are strange to him. On this island, as distant from the real world as the fantastical Bermuda in Shakespeare's The Tempest, Arturo and Nunziata recreate the tragedy and passion that are as old as the history of men and women."--BOOK JACKET.

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Steerforth Italia, Zoland Books
Language
English
Pages
351

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Subjects
Fiction, general, Romance italiano, New York Times reviewed, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Stepmothers, Men, Sexual behavior, Families, Teenage boys, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Magical Realism

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Cover of: Arturo's island
Arturo's island: a novel
2002, Steerforth Italia, Zoland Books
in English - 1st Steerforth ed.
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Cover of: L 'isola di Arturo
L 'isola di Arturo: romanzo.
1995, Einaudi
in Italian
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Arturo's island.
1959, Knopf
in English - [1st American ed.]
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Cover of: L' isola di Arturo
L' isola di Arturo: romanzo
1957, Einaudi
in Italian
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Edition Notes

English trans. originally published: William Collins Sons & Co., 1959.

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South Royalton, Vt

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
853/.912
Library of Congress
PQ4829.O615 I813 2002, PQ4829.O615I813 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
351 p. ;
Number of pages
351

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22736477M
Internet Archive
arturosislandnov0000mora
ISBN 10
1586420410
LCCN
2001057752
OCLC/WorldCat
48620424
Library Thing
131141
Goodreads
528493

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