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I Malavoglia: The House by the Medlar Tree

Giovanni Verga

ISBN: 9781903517635
Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Softcover

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

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Los Malavoglia

Giovanni Verga

ISBN: 9788437606811
Publisher: Catedra Ediciones
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Softcover

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Sparrow, Temptation and Cavalleria Rusticana

Giovanni Verga

ISBN: 9781903517093
Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Softcover

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Life in the Country

Giovanni Verga

ISBN: 9781843910428
Publisher: Hesperus Pr
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Softcover

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Per Le Vie

Giovanni Verga; Raffaele Morabito

ISBN: 9788800811774
Publisher: Le Monnier
Publication Date: 2003

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[Opere Scelte]

Giovanni Verga; Marzio Pieri

ISBN: 9788802051567
Publisher: Unione tipografico-editrice torinese
Publication Date: 2002

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Sicilian Stories/Novelle Siciliane: A Dual-Language Book

Giovanni Verga; Stanley Appelbaum

ISBN: 9780486419459
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Softcover

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Trilogia Romantica

Giovanni Verga; Marzio Pieri

ISBN: 9788888097220
Publisher: La finestra
Publication Date: 2002

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Cavalleria Rusticana E Altre Novelle

Giovanni Verga

ISBN: 9788817866569
Publisher: Rizzoli
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Softcover

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LA Lupa

Giovanni Verga

ISBN: 9780413754509
Publisher: Methuen Pub Ltd
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Softcover

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Little Novels of Sicily: Stories

Giovanni Verga; D. H. Lawrence

ISBN: 9781883642549
Publisher: Steerforth Pr
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Softcover

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

Mastro-Don Gesualdo

Giovanni Verga

ISBN: 9781873982525
Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Softcover

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

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Felis-Mulier

Giovanni Verga; Rita Verdirame

ISBN: 9788838915048
Publisher: Sellerio
Publication Date: 1999

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Giovanni Verga: Una Biblioteca Da Ascoltare

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

ISBN: 9788880163060
Publisher: De Luca
Publication Date: 1999

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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

ISBN: 9788886498395
Publisher: Testo & immagine
Publication Date: 1998

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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

ISBN: 9788847100084
Publisher: M. Del Bucchia
Publication Date: 1997

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Eros

Giovanni Verga; Gino Tellini

ISBN: 9788842520283
Publisher: Mursia
Publication Date: 1997

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Sparrow: A Novel

Giovanni Verga; Frances Frenaye; Lucy Gordan; Giuseppe Verga

ISBN: 9780934977425
Publisher: Italica Pr
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Softcover

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Other editions: Softcover - 1994, Softcover - 1994

The House by the Medlar Tree: 1 Malavoccia

Giovanni Verga

ISBN: 9781873982136
Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Softcover

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

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A Mortal Sin

Giovanni Verga; Iain Halliday

ISBN: 9780704302495
Publisher: Quartet Books
Publication Date: 1995

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Due Sceneggiature Inedite

Giovanni Verga; Carla Riccardi

ISBN: 9788845224751
Publisher: Bompiani
Publication Date: 1995

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Dal Tuo Al Mio

Giovanni Verga; Tania Basile

ISBN: 9788800811736
Publisher: Le Monnier
Publication Date: 1995

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Edizione Nazionale Delle Opere Di Giovanni Verga

Giovanni Verga

ISBN: 9788800811484
Publisher: Le Monnier
Publication Date: 1995

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Don Candeloro E C.I

Giovanni Verga; Cosimo Cucinotta

ISBN: 9788800811804
Publisher: Le Monnier
Publication Date: 1994

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Short Sicilian Novels: Novelle Rusticane

Giovanni Verga; D. H. Lawrence; Eric Lane

ISBN: 9781873982402
Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Softcover

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Other editions: 1984