THE LOST LETTER
ENRICO CASTELNUOVO 329
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
GIOVANNI VERGA 347
THE SILVER CRUCIFIX
ANTONIO FOGAZZARO 359
THE LITTLE SARDINIAN DRUMMER
EDMONDO DE AMICIS 375
LULU’S TRIUMPH
MATILDA SERAO 387
THE END OF CANDIA
GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO 411
SIGNORA SPERANZA
LUIGI PIRANDELLO 427
TWO MEN AND A WOMAN
GRAZIA DELEDDA 481
_SCANDINAVIAN_
RAILROAD AND CHURCHYARD
BJÖRNSTJERNE BJÖRNSON 511
BJÖRN SIVERTSEN’S WEDDING TRIP
HOLGER DRACHMANN 547
JALO THE TROTTER
JOHANN JACOB AHRENBERG 567
THE PLAGUE AT BERGAMO
JENS PETER JACOBSEN 583
KAREN
ALEXANDER LANGE KIELLAND 595
LOVE AND BREAD
JEAN AUGUST STRINDBERG 605
IRENE HOLM
HERMANN JOACHIM BANG 619
THE OUTLAWS
SELMA LAGERLÖF 637
THE LOST LETTER
BY ENRICO CASTELNUOVO
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_Enrico Castelnuovo, who was born at Florence in 1839, is
one of the earliest of Italian writers of the modern short
story, and a link between the group of poets, dramatists, and
novelists, beginning with Manzoni (1785-1873), and the group
of his own immediate contemporaries, including Carducci,
Fogazzaro, Barrili, Farina, Verga, D’Annunzio, De Amicis,
Serao, and other disciples of Carducci._
_His literary career began with a little romance called “Il
quaderno della zia”; it struck not only his first note of
popularity, but the rich vein of his talent, which consists
in minute observation and keen dramatic insight, softened by
a sympathetic, almost sentimental, style--a rare combination
traced from his first little romance to his later volumes of
short stories, and especially marked in the story given here,
“The Lost Letter.”_
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THE LOST LETTER
A STORY OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN