by Giovanni Verga · Edizioni Scolastiche Bruno Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788842430568
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«Novelle» is the collection of short stories by Giovanni Verga, published by Edizioni Scolastiche Bruno Mondadori in paperback (264 pages, in Italian).
«Novelle» brings together short stories set in rural nineteenth-century Sicily, focusing on peasants, fishermen and humble people trapped by poverty and social conventions. Verga's prose, close to verismo, describes landscapes, trades and human relationships with an objective and compassionate eye, and constitutes a representative sample of Giovanni Verga's short fiction.
It belongs to the «Bottega del lettore» series, a school collection from Edizioni Scolastiche Bruno Mondadori. Published in 1991, it gathers a selection of Verga's stories for the educational field.
Intended for intermediate-level students and for those approaching Verga in a school context.
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.
