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Fantasy ), which has already been presented to an English public in the present series of translations. It was followed by a much weaker study of Neapolitan life, _Cuore Infermo_ (
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A Heart Diseased ). In 1881 she published
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The Life and Adventures of Riccardo Joanna, to which she added a continuation in 1885. It is not possible to enumerate all Madame Serao's successive publications, but the powerful romance, _La Conquista di Roma_ (
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The Conquest of Rome ), 1882, must not be omitted. This is a very careful and highly finished study of bureaucratic ambition, admirably characterised. Since then she has written in rapid succession several volumes of collected short stories, dealing with the oddities of Neapolitan life, and a curious novel,
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The Virtue of Cecchina, 1884. Her latest romances, most of them short, have been _Terno Secco_ (
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A Dry Third ), a very charming episode of Italian life, illustrating the frenzied interest taken in the public lotteries, 1887; _Addio Amore_ (
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Farewell Love! ), 1887, which is here, for the first time, published in English; _La Granda Fiamma_, 1889; and _Sogno di una notte d'estate_ (
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A Summer Night's Dream