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Neapolitan Novels - Wikipedia

1.1 My Brilliant Friend (2011) · 1.2 The Story of a New Name (2012) · 1.3 Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (2013) · 1.4 The Story of the Lost Child (2014).

10 Best Elena Ferrante Books (Definitive Ranking)

10 Best Elena Ferrante Books of All Time. Our goal: Find the best Elena Ferrante books according to the internet (not just one random person's opinion).

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante is the #1 book of the 21st ...

A novel is meant to reveal the eternal truths of the human experience, and these are richly evident in Ferrante's writing. There isn't a grand ...

Magpie Book Club: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante.

Magpie Book Club: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. ... All in all, I have to agree with the NYT that this novel is essential reading.

Beyond the Best Seller: The Brilliance of Elena Ferrante

In over 1700 pages, writer Elena Ferrante invites readers of her four-part “Neapolitan novels'' to follow protagonist Lenu's life in a ...

Review: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante - The Mistress of Books

The first novel of the series sets the stage for the lifelong friendship between Elena and Lila. Both girls live in an impoverished town on the outskirts of ...

Book Review: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante - Created to Read

I thought about reading something by the famous Elena Ferrante a few months ago, looked up her books online and was surprised by rather ...

Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, Books 1 and 2...Or, "My Brilliant ...

A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena ...

Elena Ferrante | The Booker Prizes

True to her belief that 'books, once they are written, have no need of their authors', Ferrante has stayed resolutely out of public view.

What Is so Brilliant About Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Series?

Since publication of the first book in 2011, the Neapolitan Novels have made their way into the highest echelon of modern literature.

Suggested Summer Reading – From Murakami to Ferrante, by ...

The Neapolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante. A fun way to approach summer reading is to try a series. I read all four of these books in close ...

Make Your Dad Read Elena Ferrante! - The Cut

Over the past year, I've discussed Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels with a lot of women in my life. These conversations often settled on ...

Reading Ferrante: a masterclass in storytelling - Melissa Fagan

Having already devoured My Brilliant Friend, the first of Elena Ferrante's four Neapolitan Novels, I began reading the next book, The Story of a ...

Elena Ferrante Archives - Longreads

At The New Republic, novelist Alexander Chee has an essay/review of Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey, Ferrante's new book of selected letters and interviews ...

REVIEW: Elena Ferrante's New Book: the Delightful, the Banal, and ...

This excitement was the product of having stayed up all night on the plane ride to Milan reading The Days of Abandonment, the first Ferrante ...

MY BRILLIANT FRIEND by Elena Ferrante - Auxiliary Memory

That's why when I finished reading the single volume entitled My Brilliant Friend, I couldn't understand why the writers polled by The New York ...

Origin Stories: Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels - Ploughshares

Aerial picture of the city of Naples. I was on book three of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet when I told a friend that Lila, the book's ...

elena ferrante Archives - Radical Reads

The pseudonymous Italian writer Elena Ferrante is best known for her Neopolitan Novels, starting with My Brilliant Friend in 2012.

Review: The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

If you're a Ferrante fan and are looking for more after finishing the NNs, I recommend that you read The Lying Life of Adults next. I also ...

A Review of Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend

Earlier this week when I took my Yarn Along photo, I had read about 90% of My Brilliant Friend. I had already started to warm to it after ...