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

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Storia di una capinera. Ediz. integrale

Giulio Carnazzi

Mastro-don Gesualdo

bozzetto siciliano

Nedda

La lupa - Rosso Malpelo

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 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

The House by the Medlar Tree

Mastro don Gesualdo. Ediz. integrale

"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.

Vita dei campi

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