Giovanni Verga

I Malavoglia: The House by the Medlar Tree

Giovanni Verga

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Other editions: 1995, 1995, Softcover - 1991, Softcover - 1987, Softcover - 1983

Los Malavoglia

Giovanni Verga

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Sparrow, Temptation and Cavalleria Rusticana

Giovanni Verga

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Life in the Country

Giovanni Verga

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Per Le Vie

Giovanni Verga; Raffaele Morabito

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[Opere Scelte]

Giovanni Verga; Marzio Pieri

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Sicilian Stories/Novelle Siciliane: A Dual-Language Book

Giovanni Verga; Stanley Appelbaum

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Trilogia Romantica

Giovanni Verga; Marzio Pieri

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Cavalleria Rusticana E Altre Novelle

Giovanni Verga

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LA Lupa

Giovanni Verga

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Little Novels of Sicily: Stories

Giovanni Verga; D. H. Lawrence

FIRST PUBLISHED in a single volume in 1883, the stories collected in Little Novels of Sicily are drawn from the Sicily of Giovanni Verga's childhood, reported at the time to be the poorest place in Europe. Verga's style is swift, sure, and implacable; he plunges into his stories almost in midbreath, and tells them with a stark economy of words. There's something dark and tightly coiled at the heart of each story, an ironic, bitter resolution that is belied by the deceptive simplicity of Verga's prose, and Verga strikes just when the reader's not expecting it.

Translator D. H. Lawrence surely found echoes of his own upbringing in Verga's sketches of Sicilian life: the class struggle between property owners and tenants, the relationship between men and the land, and the unsentimental, sometimes startlingly lyric evocation of the landscape. Just as Lawrence veers between loving and despising the industrial North and its people, so too Verga shifts between affection for and ironic detachment from the superstitious, uneducated, downtrodden working poor of Sicily. If Verga reserves pity for anyone or anything, it is the children and the animals, but he doesn't spare them. In his experience, it is the innocents who suffer first and last and always.

"The Little Novels of Sicily have that sense of the wholeness of life, the spare exuberance, the endless inflections and overtones, and the magnificent and thrilling vitality of major literature."-- The New York Times

"In these stories the whole Sicily of the 1860s lives before us . . . and whether his subject be the brutal bloodshed of an abortive revolution or the simple human comedy that can attend even deep mourning, Verga never loses his complete artistic mastery of his material."-- The Times Literary Supplement

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Other editions: 1975, 1973

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Mastro-Don Gesualdo

Giovanni Verga

On the face of things, Mastro Don Gesualdo is a success. Born a peasant but a man' with an eye for everything going', he becomes one of the richest men in Sicily, marrying an aristocrat with his daughter destined, in time, to wed a duke. But Gesualdo falls foul of the rigid class structure of mid-19th century Sicily. His title Mastro Don, 'Worker Gentleman', is ironic in itself. Peasants and gentry alike resent his extraordinary success. And when the pattern of society is threatened by revolt, Gesualdo is the rebels' first target.

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Other editions: 1993, 1993, Softcover - 1985, Softcover - 1984, Hardcover - 1976, 1970

Felis-Mulier

Giovanni Verga; Rita Verdirame

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Giovanni Verga: Una Biblioteca Da Ascoltare

Giovanni Verga; Italy; Teatro dei Dioscuri (Rome, Italy)

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Il Cinema E La Vergogna: Negli Scritti Di Verga, Bontempelli, Pirandello

Giovanni Verga; Luigi Pirandello; Massimo Bontempelli; Liborio Termine; Ira Fabri; Chiara Simonigh

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Il Silenzio Dell'infanzia: Ideologia Ed Educazione in Rosso Malpelo Di Giovanni Verga in Appendice Il Racconto Nell'edizione Del 1880

Giovanni Verga; Marco Righetti; Giovanni Genovesi

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Eros

Giovanni Verga; Gino Tellini

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Sparrow: A Novel

Giovanni Verga; Frances Frenaye; Lucy Gordan; Giuseppe Verga

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Other editions: Softcover - 1994, Softcover - 1994

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The House by the Medlar Tree: 1 Malavoccia

Giovanni Verga

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1984, Softcover - 1984, 1975

A Mortal Sin

Giovanni Verga; Iain Halliday

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Due Sceneggiature Inedite

Giovanni Verga; Carla Riccardi

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Dal Tuo Al Mio

Giovanni Verga; Tania Basile

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Edizione Nazionale Delle Opere Di Giovanni Verga

Giovanni Verga

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Don Candeloro E C.I

Giovanni Verga; Cosimo Cucinotta

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Short Sicilian Novels: Novelle Rusticane

Giovanni Verga; D. H. Lawrence; Eric Lane

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Other editions: 1984