Drawn from the Sicily of Giovanni Verga's childhood - at the time, the poorest place in Europe - the stories in Little Novels of Sicily capture life's inimitably ironic blend of beauty and sorrow. A loudly lamenting widower enters negotiations for a new wife even before the grave is filled; a donkey driver finds the patronage of the king a mixed blessing; and successful revolutionaries discover that liberty is of short duration.Full of twists in perspective and lyrically described landscapes, Verga's stories record the class struggles of Risorgimento Italy, the relationship between men and the land, and the cynical yet reassuring intimacy of life in a rural community. In deceptively simple, powerfully concentrated prose, Verga shifts between affection and dry detachment, but never turns his gaze away from life as it is really lived.
Eros :
Storia di una capinera :
Landsbyhistorier fra Sicilien
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Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga
Eva
Tigre reale
Una peccatrice
Il marito di Elena
Dal tuo al mio
Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol. 8 (Love) : The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov, The Trial of Love by Mary Shelley, The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde and others
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Little Novels of Sicily
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engelsk
