Life in the Country

Giovanni Verga, J.G. Nichols

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English

Alma Edizioni
07 January 2019

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories

Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages

Published in 1880, one year before Verga’s influential novel The Malavoglias, Life in the Country first marked his stylistic shift towards the verismo school of Italian realism. The collection’s centrepiece, ‘Rustic Honour’ (‘Cavalleria rusticana’) – which was famously adapted into a play by the author before becoming an opera by Mascagni – tells the tale of Turiddu, a poor young man who returns from military service and finds himself embroiled in adultery and a feud with a rival.

Also including the well-known stories ‘She-Wolf’ and ‘Foxfur’, Life in the Country captures, in an objective, non-judgemental prose, the difficult conditions and personal struggles of the peasant class in his native Sicily at the turn of the twentieth century.

By: Giovanni Verga
Translated by: J.G. Nichols
Imprint: Alma Edizioni
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm,
Weight: 150g
ISBN: 9781847497710
ISBN 10: 1847497713
Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages
Pages: 114
Publication Date: 07 January 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) was an Italian novelist, short-story writer and playwright, celebrated for realistic depictions of rural Sicily in the newly unified Italy.

Reviews for Life in the Country

I love Life in the Country, for reasons to do with undemonstrative compassion and self-abnegating understanding - qualities as abiding in great art as they are sporadic in day-to-day existence. Paul Bailey