A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales – most in English for the first time – ‘The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales’ presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 and 1914, following Italy’s political unification. In those decades of political and social change, folklorists collected fairy tales from many regions of the country while influential writers invented original narratives in standard Italian, drawing on traditional tales in local dialects, and translated others from France.