Giovanni Verga

I Malavoglia

Rosso Malpelo

1888

Mastro don Gesualdo

This is the first English translation of Verga's novel La Storia di una Capinera and is the official tie-in with the Zeffirelli film Sparrow. Set in 1854 in a Sicily devastated by a cholera epidemic. Sparrow tells of a love that can never be; the brief existence of a girl, forced to become a nun, who falls in love with a young man, but who, on returning to the convent, goes insane. Zeffirelli chose to film Sparrow as he was intrigued by the need for idealised and absolute love. "It is a challenge for me to tell of 'The Insanity of Absolute Love' with its emotional yearnings and enchantment, its exchanges of furtive glances and stolen caresses".

The Story of a Songbird

Sparrow

bozzetto siciliano

Nedda

La lupa - Rosso Malpelo

Tutte le novelle

Storia di una capinera. Ediz. integrale

Giulio Carnazzi

Mastro-don Gesualdo

Ustasi Don Gesualdo; Modern Klasikler Dizisi

Duvarci

First published in 1883, this book by Verga poignantly re-creates the beautiful simplicity of Sicilian village life, painting the grim lives of fishermen and farmers with comic elements and evoking mystical pleasures of the landscape in which he was born.

Stories

Little Novels of Sicily

Rosso Malpelo e altre novelle

The stories of Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) are wonderful evocations of ordinary Italian life, focusing in particular on his native Sicily. In an original and dynamic prose style, he portrays such eternal human themes as love, honour and adultery with rich and colourful language. The inspiration for Mascagni's opera, 'Cavalleria Rusticana' depicts a young man's triumphal return home from the army, spoilt when he learns that his beloved is engaged to another man. Verga's acute awareness of the hardships and aspirations of peasant life can be seen in stories such as 'Nedda', 'Picturesque Lives' and 'Black Bread', while others such as 'The Reverend' and 'Don Licciu Papa' show the dominance of the church and the law in the Sicilian communities he portrays so vividly.

Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories

Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) is the most important of the Italian Realist School of novelists. This new edition of "The House by the Medlar Tree (I Malavoglia)" makes the complete English version of his masterpiece available once more. The story of the Malavoglia, a family of poor Sicilian fisherman, is Verga's moving rendering of the theme of mankind's struggle for self-betterment, the dignity of the struggle in the face of poverty and hardship, and the tragedy that the struggle inevitably incurs. D. H. Lawrence described Vega's work as "Homeric." Rayond Rosenthal's translation of "I Malavoglia" is the only complete version of this novel in English and conveys Vega's lyrical realism and the flavor of Sicialian village life superbly.The book is introduced by Giovanni Ceccheti, whose own translations of Verga, "Mastro-don Gesualdo" and "The She-Wolf and Other Stories," are also available from California.

The House by the Medlar Tree

"Giovanni Verga is one of the masters of European literature, and his novel The House by the Medlar Tree is a great work. I am very happy to see it reprinted and I hope that many people will read it."—Iriving Howe

Mastro don Gesualdo. Ediz. integrale

È la storia del bello e ricco marchese Alberto Alberti e dei suoi amori prima rivolti alla cugina Adele, poi alla sua amica Velleda con la quale si fidanzerà ma che lascerà in favore di un'affascinante contessa per tornare infine ad Adele ed avviarsi verso un finale tragico. Dal punto di vista della tecnica narrativa è sicuramente uno dei romanzi meglio riusciti di Verga, sia nei dialoghi che nella creazione di scene e personaggi. Eros è un'opera nella quale si nasconde il ritratto di una società annoiata che riempie il vuoto delle sue giornate con storie e schermaglie di finte passioni.

Eros

"L'amante di Gramigna" � una novella di Giovanni Verga del 1881.

L'amante di Gramigna

Al centro della narrazione sta la "Provvidenza", la barca più illustre della letteratura italiana, la più vecchia delle barche da pesca del villaggio. La vicenda ruota intorno alla sventura dei Malavoglia, innescata proprio dal naufragio della "Provvidenza" carica di lupini presi a credito. Si snoda così tutta una trama straordinariamente complessa che non abbandona mai lo svolgersi doloroso del dramma. Il quale è una serie di rovesci, colpo su colpo contro i Malavoglia, ogni volta che a forza di rassegnazione e coraggio riescono a rialzarsi dal colpo precedente.

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