by Giovanni Verga · Garzanti · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788811362500
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«Le novelle (Vol. 1)» is a collection of short stories by Giovanni Verga, published by Garzanti in paperback (704 pages, in Italian).
This first volume brings together tales of Italian verismo set in rural Sicily, with peasant characters marked by poverty, work, and passions. It includes «Nedda», «Rosso Malpelo», and «La lupa», titles that show the fatality of destiny in a hostile environment and the struggle to survive.
This is volume 1 of the «I grandi libri» collection by Garzanti and includes an introduction and notes by Nicola Merola.
For readers interested in Italian literature, classics, and nineteenth-century verismo.
Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca was an Italian realist (verista) writer. His novels I Malavoglia (1881) and Mastro-don Gesualdo (1889) are widely recognized as masterpieces. Verga has been called the greatest Italian novelist after Manzoni. D. H. Lawrence translated several of his works into English.
