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Explore our titlesEspresso 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.
New from Espresso
Espresso Italian Classics
Translated by Idara Crespi
A nineteenth-century Naples novel, serialised, beloved, and never before translated into English. Love, betrayal, and identity set against a city of startling contrasts.
Espresso Spanish Classics
Translated by Inés Bou
The Spanish comic masterpiece 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. Its first modern English literary edition.
Espresso Italian Classics
Translated 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. Its first English literary translation.
Ships March 2027
Espresso Italian Classics
Translated 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. The first English translation of any part of this vast work.
Ships September 2026
Espresso French Classics
Translated 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. Its first new English translation in over a century.
Ships July 14, 2026
"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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