Little Novels of Sicily

Name: Little Novels of Sicily
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ISBN: 9781883642549

ISBN-10: 188364254X

ISBN-13: 9781883642549

Edition: 3rd

Authors: Giovanni Verga, D. H. Lawrence

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FIRST PUBLISHED in a single volume in 1883, the stories collected inLittle Novels of Sicilyare 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. Translator D. H. Lawrence surely found echoes of his own upbringing in Verga's sketches of Sicilian life: the class struggle between…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Publication date: 2/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.43" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.528



Note on Giovanni Verga



His Reverence


So Much for the King


Don Licciu Papa


The Mystery Play


Malaria


The Orphans


Property


Story of the Saint Joseph's Ass


Black Bread


The Gentry


Liberty


Across the Sea