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About Short Stories Set in Italy – The English Language in a Foreign Land: Set upon even the most beautiful of backgrounds can lie the darkest secrets

The cliché is of the artist starving in his garret. Be it poet or author it seems romantic but lacks somewhat in the comforts and quality of life. Somewhat better then to live and write in perhaps the Classical Cultural centre of the world; Italy. A gloried land that sates the appetite yet something increases its ambition and its yearning for further reach. Being an English author in a new and different culture seems to work its magic when these two are placed together in the same spot with a rich vocabulary; ideas seem more fully formed and characters have another edge to their existence. For the outsider looking in, more can be revealed and shared with ourselves. 01 - Short Stories Set in Italy - The English Language in a Foreign Land - An Introduction 02 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton 03 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 1 by H G Wells 04 - A Dream of Armageddon - Part 2 by H G Wells 05 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe 06 - Amour Dure - Part 1 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee 07 - Amour Dure - Part 2 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee 08 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather 09 - The Story of Salome by Amelia Edwards 10 - The Muse's Tragedy by Edith Wharton 11 - A Tale of Negative Gravity by Frank R Stockton 12 - A Wicked Voice - Part 1 by Vernon Lee 13 - A Wicked Voice - Part 2 by Vernon Lee 14 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 15 - For the Blood is the Life by F Marion Crawford 03 - Alexander the Ratcatcher by Richard Garnett 17 - The Iron Shroud by William Mudford 18 - Caterpillars by E F Benson 19 - No 5 Branch Line. The Engineer by Amelia Edwards 20 - Roman Fever by Edith Wharton 21 - Dionea - Part 1 by Vernon Lee 22 - Dionea - Part 2 by Vernon Lee 23 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne 24 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne