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.
50 Capolavori Da Leggere Prima Di Morire: Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics)
Carlo Collodi, Golden Deer Classics, Dante Alighieri, Niccolò Machiavelli, Daniel Defoe, Charlotte Brontë, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jules Verne, Plato, Edmondo De Amicis, Rudyard Kipling, Voltaire, Homer, Sofocle, Lao Tzu, Jonathan Swift, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Honoré de Balzac, Aleksandr Puškin, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Fëdor Dostoevskij, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lewis Carroll, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emilio De Marchi, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Giovanni Verga, Jerome Klapka Jerome, Anatole France, Émile Zola, Oscar Wilde, J.M. Barrie, Matilde Serao, Grazia Deledda, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Italo Svevo, Luigi Pirandello, Augusto De Angelis, Stendhal, Alessandro Manzoni
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Landsbyhistorier fra Sicilien
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Vita dei campi
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Rosso Malpelo
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Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga
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Eva
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Eros
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Tigre reale
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Una peccatrice
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Il marito di Elena
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Rhapsody
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Holy City of Mars
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How Beauty Was Saved and Other Memories of the Sixties
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Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown
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Dødvande
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Mother Country : A Novel
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Wittgenstein Jr
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Rust
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Broken Symmetries
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Our Narrow Hiding Places : A Novel
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