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Seconda opera del progettato ciclo dei "Vinti", dopo i "Malavoglia", "Mastro don Gesualdo" è un romanzo di costume. La parabola di Gesualdo Motta che da "mastro" (muratore) diventa "don" (ricco borghese) descrive il fallimento di una vita tutta dedita al culto della "roba", ma completamente aliena da affetti genuini e sinceri. Nel sovrapporsi chiassoso di voci che incrinano ogni valore sociale Verga sembra aver individuato il ritmo espressivo ...

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SET IN and around Catania, Sicily, on the verge of the Italian Risorgimento, Sparrow, first published as "Storia di una capinera" in 1870, tells the story of Maria, the daughter of a low-level bureaucrat, like so many other young women of the time, forced into the convent by economic and social forces. After a brief - and almost imaginary - flirtation with the son of neighbors forced together with her family during a cholera epidemic, Maria is...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

Italy has a long history of short story writing -going back to Boccaccio (d. 1375) - and most of Italy's major writers produced collections of novelle. One of the greatest exponents is Giovanni Verga. The themes of his major novels are to be found in his short stories. Verga embraced "verismo", the Italian form of French naturalism, where authorial comment and description is at a minimum. He creates an atmosphere and emotions in his writing wh...

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 t...