Arturo Vivante

The writer is in a trench, building the foundation for an addition to his house-digging, shovelling, measuring, laying concrete blocks. Looking up, he sees…

Story about a park, which was laid out about 1840 at the end of a long cypress drive from the Tuscan villa. The estate was inherited by a religious couple,…

Occasionally, while surrounded by his boisterous children and his wife, he would do something extraordinary, like eating a pear with a fork and knife. What…

A 40-year-old reminisces about his childhood and the times when he used to tidy up the bedroom when his mother, now dead, was ill. Each time he did so, she…

Roland, a painter, first met Carol in London, where he had a studio. She was an American, travelling in England. It was now 5 years. They had been married …

Writer wonders whether as the swimmer drowns he loves the sea, or the zebra the lion which devours it, or the mountain climber the cliff from which he …

In 1939, when the writer was 15, he left Italy & came to England where he attended an English boarding school. After a few weeks, three older boys called …