The glitter and cynicism of Rome under Mussolini provide the background of what is probably Alberto Moravia's best and best-known novel - The Woman of Rome. It's the story of Adriana, a simple girl with no fortune but her beauty who models naked for a painter, accepts gifts from men, and could never quite identify the moment when she traded her private dream of home and children for the life of a prostitute. One of the very few novels of the twentieth century which can be ranked with the work of Dostoevsky, The Woman of Rome also tells the stories of the tortured university student Giacomo, a failed revolutionary who refuses to admit his love for Adriana; of the sinister figure of Astarita, the Secret Police officer obsessed with Adriana; and of the coarse and brutal criminal Sonzogno, who treats Adriana as his private property.
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1999 : Hardback
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1974 : Hardback
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1971 : Hardback
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1950 : Hardback
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December 1949 : Hardback
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June 1949 : Hardback
| Title: Woman of Rome Author(s): Alberto Moravia ISBN: 9997406222 / 9789997406224 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
June 1999 : Paperback
| Title: The Woman of Rome: A Novel (Italia) Author(s): Alberto Moravia ISBN: 1-883642-80-9 / 9781883642808 (USA edition) Publisher: Zoland Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1984 : Paperback
| Title: Woman of Rome (Panther Books) Author(s): Alberto Moravia ISBN: 0-586-05701-3 / 978-0-586-05701-8 (UK edition) Publisher: HarperCollins Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 1982 : Paperback
| Title: The Woman of Rome Author(s): Alberto Moravia ISBN: 0-86721-100-8 / 978-0-86721-100-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Berkley Pub Group (Mm) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1976 : Paperback
| Title: The Woman of Rome Author(s): Alberto Moravia ISBN: 0-14-000880-2 / 978-0-14-000880-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1974 : Mass Market Paperback
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1968 : Mass Market Paperback
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January 1964 : Paperback
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January 1961 : Paperback
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January 1960 : Paperback
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January 1959 : Paperback
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January 1958 : Paperback
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January 1957 : Paperback
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January 1956 : Paperback
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1955 : Mass Market Paperback
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January 1953 : Paperback
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January 1952 : Paperback
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January 1951 : Paperback
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1949 : Paperback
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1952 : Unknown
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1951 : Unknown
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1949 : Unknown
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