Life in the Country

by Giovanni Verga

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847497713
• ISBN13: 9781847497710
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 7.7"