title: An Autumn Story (Eridanos Library)
author:  Tommaso Landolfi 
description: Set during WW II, this is the first novel to appear in English by the celebrated Italian author of Words in Commotion and Other Stories . The narrator, an outlaw, takes refuge in an odd mountain manor occupied by an elderly nobleman and his two ferocious wolfhounds. The renegade's curiosity is awakened when he sees a turn-of-the-century painting of an alluring woman, and hears "faint breathing" in his room at night and suspiciously light footsteps on a staircase. Ignoring the wishes of his host, he explores what he perceives to be a ghostly presence in the mansion. This riveting tale packs multiple surprises, with piercingly nightmarish imagery and intense, lonely characters tormented by private passions and obsessions. Landolfi (1908-79) masterfully evokes mood by engaging the senses: "By now, it was the dead of night; a stiff, wet wind had risen, increasing the havoc that the dampness had wrought on me. . . . All around me, I heard the huge trees twisting and soughing furiously." <br />Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: EROE
  
  MJ FIELDS
  
  CONTENTS
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Next In Steel…
  Sabato
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  EROE (ST. ANDREWS: A SABATO ORIGINS STORY)
  1st Edition Published: March 2015
  Published by MJ Fields
  Edits by: Veronica Park
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
  RAINING GLASS
  Florence
  May 27th, 1993
  (Age 7)
  “Sabato, venire qui!” Mama laughs as I look up at “The Death of 