A young girl falls in love but is forced return to the covent and become a nun. This volume contains the long novella Sparrow, the short stories of Cavalleria Rusticana and five stories never previously translated into English: Temptation, The Schoolmaster, The Devil's Hand, The Gold Key and Comrades. A great read for anyone interested in Sicily and Southern Italy. Verga is the master of the short-story form.
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
Anthony Trollope, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, D. H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, W. S. Gilbert, Giovanni Verga, Ivan Turgenev
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Landsbyhistorier fra Sicilien
Giovanni Verga
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Vita dei campi
Giovanni Verga
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Rosso Malpelo
Giovanni Verga
audiobook
Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga
Giovanni Verga
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Eva
Giovanni Verga
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Tigre reale
Giovanni Verga
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Eros
Giovanni Verga
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Una peccatrice
Giovanni Verga
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Il marito di Elena
Giovanni Verga
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Dal tuo al mio
Giovanni Verga
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Vita dei campi
Giovanni Verga
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DRIFTING : A vau-l'eau
J.-K. Huysmans
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Toomas Nipernaadi
August Gailit
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The Queen of Darkness and other stories
Grazia Deledda
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Marianna Sirca
Grazia Deledda
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The Angel of the West Window
Gustav Meyrink, Mike Mitchell
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The Vatard Sisters
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Brendan King
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The Green Face
Gustav Meyrink, Mike Mitchell, Franz Rottensteiner
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Stranded : En Rade
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Brendan King
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Alves & Co : and other stories
Eca de Queiroz
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The Fiery Angel
Valery Bruisov
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The Relic
Eca de Queiroz, Margaret Jull Costa
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Hans Cadzand's Vocation & Other Stories
Georges Rodenbach
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