In this volume are included all the short stories written by Alberto Moravia during the period 1928-1951 and published in various magazines and newspapers, but never in a book. And these stories are the texts that clarify the character of the Italian author better. The careful reader will be able to classify them into three genres: the stories written during the war that mark Moravia's "debut" in literature, the stories based on human types and characters that move between surrealism and classicism, as well as the "realistic" stories that refer us to the best Moravia, the one of "The Disgraced" and "The Roman Stories". Classic and innovative, lyrical and cynical, complex and vivid, Moravia of these stories published after his death remains the important Italian author who dazzles with only one subject - the great adventure of life.