Do you like books. I read 2 or three a week! 
Yes. I love novels. That is pretty much any relatively long work of fiction
Right now I'm reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostovo. 
Italians have a different word for a short story called a latter.
Really? Interesting. I have a very good Italian friend who lives in Australia. I will have to ask him about it! 
If you like novels and short stories you probably have heard of the literary device of a story within a story.
For sure I have. My favorite novelist is Jane Austen, she was so before her time. 
Yes. She wrote six major novels that comment on British landed gentry. Have you read them?
Yes, which is why she is my favorite novel writer. Pride and Prejudice has a special place in my heart. 
Have you seen the film directed by Joe Write based on Jane Austin's novel?