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.

Little novels of Sicily; (Penguin modern classics)

Literature & Fiction

Giovanni Verga

Literary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

La Lupa: The She-Wolf
The villagers have given Giuseppina the nickname "the She-wolf" "because she never had enough-of anything. The women made the sign of the Cross when they saw her pass," and even the parish priest lost his soul for her. Maricchia, her daughter, bemoans her own fate: No one would want the daughter of such a woman as his wife, even though her dowry and landholdings are the match of any young woman in the town. When Nanni, a young man of the village, returns from his compulsory military service, the She-wolf falls desperately in love with him.
Inspiration for Shakira's 2009 album She-Wolf.

The She-Wolf and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

University of California Press

Short Sicilian Novels (Dedalus European Classics)

Dedalus

House by the Medlar Tree

Contemporary

Dedalus, Ltd

Little Novels of Sicily - “Novelle Rusticane” - Giovanni Verga - translated by D. H. Lawrence           Little Novels of Sicily - Novelle Rusticane - Giovanni Verga. Translated by D. H. Lawrence. Giovanni Carmelo Verga (2 September 1840 - 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist (Verismo) writer, best known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily, and especially for the short story (and later play) Cavalleria Rusticana and the novel I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar Tree). The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro, Verga was born into a prosperous family of Catania in Sicily. Giovanni Verga, the Sicilian novelist and playwright, is surely the greatest writer of Italian fiction, after Manzoni.       Verga was born in Catania, Sicily, in 1840, and died in the same city, at the age of eighty-two, in January, 1922. As a young man he left Sicily to work at literature and mingle with society in Florence and Milan, and these two cities, especially the latter, claim a large share of his mature years. He came back, however, to his beloved Sicily, to Catania, the seaport under Etna, to be once more Sicilian of the Sicilians and spend his long declining years in his own place.

Little Novels Of Sicily

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

SHORT SICILIAN NOVELS (Dedalus European Classics)

Arts & Photography

Dedalus Limited

Sizilianische Dorfgeschichten / Cavalleria rusticana. (German Edition)

dtv.

Die Malavoglia

Insel, Frankfurt

Tutte Le Novelle (Language: Italian) (French Edition)

Classics

A. Mondadori

Mastro don Gesualdo

Genre Fiction

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