by Giovanni Verga · ISBN 9788871227962
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Mastro Don Gesualdo is a novel by the Italian writer Giovanni Verga, published in 1889. The story focuses on the life of Gesualdo Motta, an ambitious and hardworking man who seeks social advancement through marriage and the accumulation of wealth. Throughout the novel, themes such as class struggle, the power of money, and complex family relationships in 19th-century Sicilian society are explored.
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.
