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wyleus's review
4.0
4.5☆ – non smetteró mai di ripetere quanto le novelle di Verga siano delle micro opere che racchiudono al loro interno un mondo meraviglioso. solo lui riesce in una tale maniera a catturare il bigottismo di una società arretrata e contadina e di restituirlo sulla carta.
sarahfish_30's review against another edition
3.0
A good collection of short-stories, written by the co-father of verismo, or Italian realism. Frequent breaks are needed, though, from the near-constant depictions of back-breaking poverty, onslaughts of cholera and tuberculosis, and familial health/wealth being made or broken by the capricious weather of the harsh Sicilian countryside. Lust and jealousy are major themes here: someone is either being called a "cuckold" or "tramp" every other page.
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