House By the Medlar Tree

Klappentext "Giovanni Verga is one of the masters of European literature, and his novel The House by the Medlar Tree is a great work. I am very happy to see it reprinted and I hope that many people will read it."—Iriving Howe Zusammenfassung Tells the story of the Malavoglia, a family of poor Sicilian fisherman. This book renders the theme of mankind's struggle for self-betterment, the dignity of the struggle in the face of poverty and hardship, and the tragedy that the struggle inevitably incurs.

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• Authors: Giovanni Cecchetti, Giovanni Verga, Giovanni Cecchetti Verga, VERGA GIOVANNI
• Assisted by: Giovanni Cecchetti (Introduction), Cecchetti Giovanni (Introduction), Raymond Rosenthal (Translation), Rosenthal Raymond (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.1984
• EAN: 9780520048508
• ISBN: 978-0-520-04850-8
• No. of pages: 275
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Italian, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form