Giovanni Verga is one of the great writers of Italian fiction. Verga was born in Catania, Sicily, in 1840, and died in the same city in 1922. As a young man he left Sicily to work at literature and mingle with society in Florence and Milan, but eventually came back to spend his long declining years in his own place. His numerous books include the novelistic masterpiece The House of the Medlar Tree.
"The Little Novels of Sicily have that sense of the wholeness of
life, the spare exuberance, the endless inflections and overtones,
and the magnificent and thrilling vitality of major literature."
-- The New York Times
"In these stories the whole Sicily of the 1860s lives before us . .
. and whether his subject be the brutal bloodshed of an abortive
revolution or the simple human comedy that can attend even deep
mourning, Verga never loses his complete artistic mastery of his
material." -- The Times Literary Supplement
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