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9780520035980 | Univ of California Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $38.00
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9781873982402 | 2 edition (Dedalus Ltd, January 1, 1994), cover price $11.95
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9780781802956 | Dedalus Ltd, September 1, 1994, cover price $11.95
Product Description: Set in and around Catania, Sicily, on the verge of the Italian Risorgimento, "Sparrow," first published as "Storia di una capinera" in 1870, tells the story of Maria, the daughter of a low-level bureaucrat, like so many other young women of the time, forced into the convent by economic and social forces...read more
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9780934977425 | Italica Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Set in and around Catania, Sicily, on the verge of the Italian Risorgimento, "Sparrow," first published as "Storia di una capinera" in 1870, tells the story of Maria, the daughter of a low-level bureaucrat, like so many other young women of the time, forced into the convent by economic and social forces.
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9781873982136 | Revised edition (Dedalus Ltd, November 1, 1997), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: novel
Provides an inside account of the shocking bankruptcy of the two-hundred-year-old British bank and the twenty-eight-year-old rogue trader in Singapore who caused its collapse. Reprint. PW.
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9780140447415 | Penguin Classics, January 1, 2000, cover price $16.00
9780061095351, titled "Total Risk: Nick Leeson and the Fall of Barings Bank" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, October 1, 1996), cover price $5.99 | also contains Total Risk: Nick Leeson and the Fall of Barings Bank | About this edition: Provides an inside account of the shocking bankruptcy of the two-hundred-year-old British bank and the twenty-eight-year-old rogue trader in Singapore who caused its collapse.
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9781883642549 | 3 edition (Steerforth Pr, March 1, 2000), cover price $15.00
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9780486419459 | Bilingual edition (Dover Pubns, January 14, 2002), cover price $14.95
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9788817866569 | Rizzoli, April 1, 2002, cover price $16.95
Product Description: In this richly colorful collection of stories, a masterwork of Naturalistic writing, Giovanni Verga attempts to capture the very essence of Sicilian life. A licentious woman coerces her son-in-law into agreeing to an illicit affair; a young boy, forced to work down in a mine to make a living, is robbed of his childhood and ultimately his life; a returning soldier toys with the affections of local girls and unleashes a sea of passion and vengeance from the village folk—read together, these stories form a remarkable chronicle of Sicilian country life in all its harsh reality...read more
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9781843910428 | Hesperus Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In this richly colorful collection of stories, a masterwork of Naturalistic writing, Giovanni Verga attempts to capture the very essence of Sicilian life.
Product Description: Italy has a long history of short story writing -going back to Boccaccio (d. 1375) - and most of Italy's major writers produced collections of novelle. One of the greatest exponents is Giovanni Verga. The themes of his major novels are to be found in his short stories...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781903517093 | Dedalus Ltd, May 1, 2003, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Italy has a long history of short story writing -going back to Boccaccio (d.
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9788437606811, titled "Los Malavoglia / the Malavoglia" | Catedra Ediciones, June 30, 2007, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD
Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more
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9781110013135 | Bibliolife, May 30, 2009, cover price $23.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
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9788493677459, titled "Cavalleria rusticana y otros cuentos sicilianos: Y otros cuentos sicilianos" | 2 edition (Ediciones Traspies, October 1, 2009), cover price $17.95
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9781497498440 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 30, 2014, cover price $7.90 | About this edition: Adattamento teatrale in atto unico della novella di Giovanni Verga «Libertà » (1882), da «Novelle Rusticane».
Product Description: New edition 2014 of "Under the shadow of Etna. Sicilian Stories". The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian literature and initiator of the 'Verismo' trend, tell of working-class characters in 19th-century rural Sicily...read more
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9781499201819 | Reprint edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 10, 2014), cover price $8.50 | About this edition: New edition 2014 of "Under the shadow of Etna.
Product Description: Written between 1832 and 1833, the stories in this collection are brimming with the realism and the sense of place that characterized Giovanni Vergaâs most famous works. Where he focused on the idiosyncrasies of Sicilian life in stories like Cavalleria Rusticana, however, Verga turns his gaze in these Milanese tales to the society of the Lombard capital, following the travails of the working class...read more
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9788494100604 | Independent Pub Group, July 1, 2014, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Written between 1832 and 1833, the stories in this collection are brimming with the realism and the sense of place that characterized Giovanni Vergaâs most famous works.
Product Description: Il marito di Elena è un romanzo di Giovanni Verga scritto nel 1881. Nel romanzo vengono abbandonati gli elementi veristici e ripresi i precedenti temi di carattere romantico e passionale a sfondo psicologico. Come scrive Luigi Russo"Malamente il romanzo è stato interpretato come il dramma di una Bovary verghiana: se il modello del grande artista francese è pur presente, l'interesse del Verga è per il dramma del "filius familias", che vede crollare un suo sogno di felicità domestica, a causa della vanità e della leggerezza della sua compagna...read more
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9781500488642 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 11, 2014, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Il marito di Elena è un romanzo di Giovanni Verga scritto nel 1881.
9781478110064 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 22, 2012, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Il Marito di Elena
Product Description: Questa Raccolta di Novelle di Giovanni Verga Contiene: Primavera e altri racconti (1877) - Vita dei campi (1880) - Novelle rusticane (1883) Per le vie (1883) - Drammi intimi (1884) - Vagabondaggio (1887) I ricordi del capitano d'Arce (1891) - Don Candeloro e C...read more
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9781500488741 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 11, 2014, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: Questa Raccolta di Novelle di Giovanni Verga Contiene: Primavera e altri racconti (1877) - Vita dei campi (1880) - Novelle rusticane (1883) Per le vie (1883) - Drammi intimi (1884) - Vagabondaggio (1887) I ricordi del capitano d'Arce (1891) - Don Candeloro e C.
Product Description: I nuovi tartufi è una commedia in quattro atti scritta da Giovanni Verga nel 1865. Il manoscritto autografo riporta la data di stesura del 14 dicembre 1865. L'opera fu originariamente inviata ad un concorso, indetto a Firenze dalla Società di incoraggiamento all'arte teatrale, ma non venne menzionata dai giornali dopo la rappresentazione, avvenuta nel 1867, sebbene fossero elencate le altre 25 opere partecipanti...read more
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9781500488635 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 11, 2014, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: I nuovi tartufi è una commedia in quattro atti scritta da Giovanni Verga nel 1865.
9781478110057 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 22, 2012, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: I nuovi tartufi è una commedia scritta da Giovanni Verga nel 1865.
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9781500488734 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 11, 2014, cover price $15.99
9781483988313 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 29, 2013, cover price $9.99
9781478110125 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 22, 2012, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Tigre reale
Product Description: Eva è un romanzo di Giovanni Verga scritto e pubblicato nel 1873. « Avevo incontrato due volte quella donna - non era più bella di tutte le altre, né più elegante, ma non somigliava a nessun'altra. - Nei suoi occhi c'erano sguardi affascinanti, come il corruscare di un'esistenza procellosa che era pieno di attrattive...read more
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9781500488611 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 11, 2014, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Eva è un romanzo di Giovanni Verga scritto e pubblicato nel 1873.
9781478110033 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 22, 2012, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Eva Eva è un romanzo di Giovanni Verga scritto e pubblicato nel 1873 a Milano dall'editore Treves.
Product Description: Una peccatrice è un romanzo di Giovanni Verga pubblicato nel 1865. Pietro Brusio, un giovane di Catania, studente di legge e con passioni letterarie, si innamora perdutamente di una donna incontrata casualmente durante una passeggiata ai giardini pubblici della città ...read more
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9781500488758 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 11, 2014, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Una peccatrice è un romanzo di Giovanni Verga pubblicato nel 1865.
9781483988528 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 29, 2013, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Una peccatrice è un romanzo di Giovanni Verga pubblicato nel 1865.
9781478110132 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 22, 2012, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Una peccatrice
Product Description: ATTO PRIMO La corte di una vecchia casa. A destra la tromba del pozzo, a sinistra la porta di un magazzino, in fondo il portico e l'androne. Sotto il portico, a destra, l'uscio a vetri della portineria, a sinistra la scala, in mezzo il cancello dell'androne...read more
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9781500488680 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 11, 2014, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: ATTO PRIMO La corte di una vecchia casa.
9781483981604 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 28, 2013, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Teatro
9781478110118 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 22, 2012, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Teatro
Product Description: Storia di una capinera è un romanzo epistolare di Giovanni Verga. Fu scritto tra il giugno e il luglio 1869, durante il soggiorno dello scrittore a Firenze. Il 25 novembre 1869, tornato temporaneamente a Catania, Verga spedisce il romanzo a Francesco Dall'Ongaro, il quale ne rimase soddisfatto al punto da riuscire a farlo pubblicare dall'editore Lampugnani nella sua sede di Milano...read more
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9781500488765 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 11, 2014, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Storia di una capinera è un romanzo epistolare di Giovanni Verga.
9781483980287 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 28, 2013, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Storia di una capinera
9781478110101 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 22, 2012, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Storia di una capinera
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