Catalogue — Espresso Publishing House

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Espresso Italian Classics

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The Blind Woman of Sorrento

La Cieca di Sorrento · Francesco Mastriani, 1852

Translated from the Italian and introduced by Idara Crespi

Francesco Mastriani’s La Cieca di Sorrento was one of the most widely read Italian novels of the nineteenth century: serialised, reprinted, staged as opera, and beloved by generations of Neapolitan readers. We can trace no English translation of it before ours.

Publication date: March 2026
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Paperback: 6 × 9 in · 362 pp · cream stock, matte cover
ISBN: 978-1-997077-00-8
US list: $19.99

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The Mysteries of Naples: Marta, or Faith

I Misteri di Napoli, Vol. I · Francesco Mastriani, 1869–70

Translated from the Italian and introduced by Idara Crespi

When Eugène Sue’s Les Mystères de Paris captivated Europe in the 1840s, it inspired writers across the continent to attempt their own versions: portraits of city life seen from below, tracing the lives of the poor alongside the powerful. In Naples, no one answered that challenge more ambitiously than Francesco Mastriani.

Series position: Book One of three
Publication date: 15 September 2026
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Paperback: 6 × 9 in · 764 pp · cream stock, matte cover
ISBN: 978-1-997077-03-9
US list: $35.99

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Story of a Blackcap

Storia di una capinera · Giovanni Verga, 1871

Translated from the Italian and introduced by Idara Crespi

Giovanni Verga’s first popular success, published in 1871: the novel that established his reputation before the darker realist work for which he is best known. Written entirely in letters, it tells the story of a young woman confined to a convent against her will, whose correspondence with a childhood friend becomes her one connection to the world outside.

Publication date: March 2027
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Espresso Spanish Classics

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The Three-Cornered Hat

El sombrero de tres picos · Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, 1874

Translated from the Spanish and introduced by Inés Bou

Andalusia, early nineteenth century. His Worship the Corregidor is the law. At least, so long as he keeps his hat on his head. When the magistrate comes calling at the mill on the road outside the city to pursue the beautiful miller’s wife, neither the authority of his three-cornered hat nor the splendour of his scarlet cloak will protect him from Tía Frasquita’s wit.

Publication date: May 2026
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Paperback: 6 × 9 in · 170 pp · cream stock, matte cover
ISBN: 978-1-997077-01-5
US list: $13.99

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Sunstroke: A Love Story

Insolación · Emilia Pardo Bazán, 1889

Translated from the Spanish and introduced by Inés Bou

A woman wakes in a darkened Madrid bedroom with her head splitting, orders lime-blossom tea, and begins composing the account she will have to give her confessor. Her maid has already supplied the opening line of it: too much sun. Asís Taboada, the widowed Marquesa de Andrade, is willing to believe her.

Publication date: 6 January 2027
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Espresso French Classics

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Madame Chrysanthème

Madame Chrysanthème · Pierre Loti, 1887

Translated from the French by Clémence Aubert

In the summer of 1885, French naval officer Pierre Loti arrived in Nagasaki on a three-month posting and arranged, following local custom, to rent a small house and a temporary wife. Madame Chrysanthème is the novel he made from that arrangement: part journal, part portrait, written in a voice of such cool, precise attention that it is sometimes mistaken for indifference.

Publication date: July 2026
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Paperback: 6 × 9 in · 218 pp · cream stock, matte cover
ISBN: 978-1-997077-02-2
US list: $15.99

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Espresso German Classics

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L’Arrabbiata and Other Italian Novellas

L’Arrabbiata, Die Stickerin von Treviso, Die Hochzeit auf Capri, Nerina · Paul Heyse, 1854 to the mid-1890s

Translated from the German by Renata Lenz

A silk-spinner crossing between Sorrento and Capri bites the hand of the boatman who has loved her for a year. In a walled workshop in Treviso, a banner worked in thread puts a woman in the sight of the man the whole city has turned out to see. On Capri, the man the bride did not marry toasts her at her wedding, drains his glass and lets it smash on the floor.

Contents: Four novellas
Publication date: 1 October 2026
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ISBN: 978-1-997077-04-6

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Espresso Russian Classics

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The Garnet Bracelet

Гранатовый браслет · Alexander Kuprin, 1911

Translated from the Russian by Mira Sorokina

For eight years a minor civil servant has been writing to a woman he has never spoken to. The letters are unsigned, or signed with initials only. Princess Vera Nikolaevna Sheina has never replied. She is married, aristocratic, entirely removed from his world. On her name day he sends her a garnet bracelet.

Publication date: February 2027
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