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Naples: A Traveller's Companion

Naples comes alive through letters, literature and remembered experience, gathering writers' voices into an introduction to the city's history and culture.

History

The Bay of Noon

Shirley Hazzard

A year in Naples draws an English woman into a novelist's orbit, shaping her encounters with the city through an unexpected relationship.

Literary fiction

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Troubling Love

Elena Ferrante

Returning to Naples after her mother's drowning, Delia follows unsettling clues that turn an investigation into a reckoning with childhood memories.

Literary fiction

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Italy in Three Acts

Naples: A Traveller's Companion

The Bay of Noon

Troubling Love

Your first journey. Your own pace.