<p>In this now-classic study, Praz describes the whole of Romantic literature under one of its most characteristic aspects, that of erotic sensibility. This wide spread mood in literature had a major effect on 19th-century poets and painters, and the affinities between them and their 20th-century counterparts makes this account of the Romantic-Decadents an indispensible guide to the study of modern literature.</p>

The Romantic Agony, 2nd Edition

Davidson, Angus

PRAZ, MARIO

History

Oxford University Press

<p>19 short stories set in the poorer parts and slums of Rome and whose heros are the ordinary people - plumbers, washerwomen, thieves, small shopkeepers and prostitutes. Moravia was born in Rome in 1907 and became foreign correspondent for several newspapers in London and Paris. He now lives in Rome and is a well-established writer.</p>

Roman Tales

Literature & Fiction

MORAVIA, ALBERTO

Literary

Oxford Univ. Pr.

8809--Since this light-hearted story deals with a dictator, his Secret Police, his mistress, and a plot against his life, it is perhaps not surprising-even though the scene is laid in an imaginary country 'on the other side of the ocean'-that it was suppressed by the fascicst authorities when it was published in Italy in 1941.

The Fancy Dress Party

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Conjugal Love

Contemporary

Edward Lear: landscape painter and nonsense poet (1812-1888)

John Murray, (1968)

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