Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories
$28.16
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2006
Summary
First time in Penguin Classics
The stories of Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) are wonderful evocations of ordinary Italian life, focusing in particular on his native Sicily. In an original and dynamic prose style, he portrays such eternal human themes as love, honour and adultery with rich and colourful language. The inspiration for Mascagni’s opera, ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ depicts a young man’s triumphal return home from the army, spoilt when he learns that his beloved is engaged to anothe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140447415 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140447415 |
| Author: | Giovanni Verga, G.H. McWilliam |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2006 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Giovanni Verga
Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) was born into a bourgeois family in Sicily and began writing historical romances as a teenager. His later fiction was more naturalistic and dramatic in style and dealt largely with Sicilian rural life. He was introduced to the English-speaking world in the translations of D. H. Lawrence and is now considered to be one of the major Italian nineteenth-century authors. Harry McWilliam has translated Boccaccio’s Decameron.
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