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Marco, soprannominato "il dottorino", è un giovane medico che si ritrova a pensare, bellamente innamorato, a Severina, la bella e affascinante figlia di un barone che è venuta a vivere dalle parti di lui, sulle rive del lago di Como, due mesi prima. Sarà proprio il padre di lei, il barone, a chiamare Marco: Severina è gravemente malata. Di cosa soffre la giovane? Può, il nostro dottorino, guarirla? Non fatevi ingannare da queste righe drammatiche, "Il signor dottorino" è infatti una divertente commedia fatta di equivoci.Emilio De Marchi (1851 – 1901) è stato un traduttore italiano, ma soprattutto scrittore e poeta; era infatti ritenuto uno dei più importanti narratori italiani della seconda metà dell’Ottocento. I protagonisti delle sue opere sono perlopiù contadini lombardi e la piccola borghesia milanese. Le sue opere sono davvero numerose, qui ne ricordiamo alcune come "Vecchie storie", "Il signor dottorino", "Redivivo", "Nuove storie d’ogni colore", "I nostri figliuoli", "Giacomo l’idealista" e "Arabella".

Could one summer on the Italian coast change Brie's life forever?Brianna Middleton has won the hearts of millions of readers with her sweeping love stories. But the girl behind the typewriter is struggling... Not only does she have writer's block, but she's a world-famous romance author with zero romance in her own life.So the opportunity to spend the summer teaching at a writer's retreat in an idyllic villa on the shores of Lake Garda – owned by the enigmatic bachelor Arran Jamieson – could just be the thing to fire up Brie's writing, and maybe even her romantic life.Brie's sun-drenched Italian summer could be the beginning of this writer's very own happy-ever-after...Escape to the Italian coast in this sun-drenched, heart-warming story from the bestselling author of "A Springtime to Remember".What readers are saying about Lucy Coleman:'I adored this book. A wonderful escapist read... ' Katherine, Katherine's Book Universe.'I adored this beautifully written tale. The score is a well-deserved and easy 5* out of 5*' Ginger Book Geek.'This book gives you all the feels. It'll make you want to move to France and start a new life... Lucy Coleman has a way of writing where it feels like you're actually there standing beside Anna and you mentally really feel involved in the story' Stacey, The Cosiest Corner.

Originally published in 1863, this is one of Anthony Trollope’s many early short stories. The novel follows the misfortune of the wealthy Greene family who are holidaying in Italy. It is there that our narrator Mr Robinson first encounters them and becomes privy to the knowledge that one of the Greene’s many travelling boxes contains Mrs Greene’s valuable jewels as well as a great deal of money. When the box goes missing, Mr Robinson is enlisted to help get to the bottom of the disappearance. A riveting read from much-loved author Anthony Trollope.Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was a Victorian writer and author of 47 novels. He also wrote an autobiography, short stories and plays, travel articles, reviews and lectures. A prolific writer, he made no secret of the fact that money was his motivation for writing – an admission which raised eyebrows among his literary contemporaries at the time. The amount of works Trollope authored are testament to his belief in hard work. His first successful novel was The Warden followed by its sequel, Barchester Towers. The Chronicles of Barsetshire are perhaps his most well-known series of novels, though many of his works have been adapted for TV and radio, starring many familiar faces such as Alan Rickman, David Tennant, Bill Nighy and Tom Hollander. Alongside his literary career, Trollope also worked for some time for the Post Office and is credited with the introduction of the iconic post box to Britain. A memorial to Anthony Trollope was unveiled in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey in 1993.