The Land of Cockayne

Matilde Serao

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Om denne lydboken

"The Land of Cockayne" was written in 1901 by Matilde Serao (1856–1927) as a powerful study in fiction of the passion for gambling and the evil effect of the national lottery in Naples on all classes of society.

Om forfatteren

Matilde Serao (7 March 1856 – 25 July 1927) was a Greek-born Italian journalist and novelist. She was the first woman called to edit an Italian newspaper, Il Corriere di Roma and later Il Giorno. Serao was also the co-founder and editor of the newspaper Il Mattino, and the author of several novels. She never won the Nobel Prize in Literature despite being nominated on six occasions.