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Franz Theodor Aerni, Market in Porta Capuana, Naples
Espresso Publishing House seeks out the foreign-language novels that deserve a second life: works of depth and beauty that have never found an adequate English edition, or have been lost to neglect for too long.
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Espresso Italian Classics
Translated from the Italian by Idara Crespi
A nineteenth-century Naples novel, serialised, beloved, and little read in English. Love, betrayal, and identity set against a city of startling contrasts.
Espresso Spanish Classics
Translated from the Spanish by Inés Bou
Alarcón’s best-known Spanish comic novel, the work that inspired Manuel de Falla’s 1919 ballet: an Andalusian tale of a lecherous magistrate, a quick-witted miller’s wife, and a hat that changes the law. The ballet is famous; the comedy behind it is not.
Espresso Italian Classics
Translated from the Italian by Idara Crespi
The novel that made Verga’s name: a story told entirely in letters, about a young woman confined to a convent and the correspondence that becomes her one connection to the world outside.
Ships March 2027
Espresso Italian Classics
Translated from the Italian by Idara Crespi
The opening volume of Mastriani’s panoramic I Misteri di Napoli, the Neapolitan answer to Eugène Sue’s Les Mystères de Paris. We can trace no complete English translation of any part of this vast work before ours.
Espresso German Classics
Translated from the German by Renata Lenz
Four Italian novellas by the German writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1910. A silk-spinner between Sorrento and Capri, a banner stitched in Treviso, a glass smashed at a Capri wedding, and one underlined line of verse in the Leopardi house. The first book in Espresso German Classics.
Publishes 1 October 2026
Espresso Russian Classics
Translated from the Russian by Mira Sorokina
A minor civil servant has written to the same woman for eight years without ever speaking to her. On her name day he sends her a garnet bracelet, and it is the last thing he will ever send her. Its first standalone English edition.
Ships February 2027
Espresso French Classics
Translated from the French by Clémence Aubert
Pierre Loti’s account of a summer in Nagasaki and a temporary wife named Chrysanthème: the novel that set in motion the chain of adaptations ending in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. The last new English translation we can trace appeared in 1905.
Hispanic Heritage Month
From the fifteenth of September to the fifteenth of October. Two novels from nineteenth-century Spain, Alarcón’s millers and magistrates, and Pardo Bazán’s one hot day in Madrid.
“I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and was entertained by it from beginning to end.”
— She Reads Novels on The Blind Woman of Sorrento
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