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I Malavoglia
I Malavoglia: (The House by the Medlar Tree) | Giovanni Verga, Judith Landry
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I Malavoglia is one of the great landmarks of Italian Literature. It is so rich in character, emotion and texture that it lives forever in the imagination of all who read it. What Verga called in his preface a 'sincere and dispassionate study of society' is an epic struggle against poverty and the elements by the fishermen of Aci Trezza, told in an expressive language based on their own dialect. "Giovanni Verga's novel of 1881 I Malavoglia presented its translator Judith Landry with formidable problems of dialect and peasant speech which she has solved so unobtrusively that one wonders why this moving and tragic tale is so little known in England."
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Daisey
I Malavoglia: The House by the Medlar Tree | Giovanni Verga, Verga Giovanni
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Mehso-so

I did not mind listening to this story of a family of Sicilian fishermen, but I can‘t say I ever became truly invested in their lives either. From the beginning everything goes from bad to worse, but very slowly things start to get better again so that it ends on a somewhat hopeful note.

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Ast_Arslan
I Malavoglia: (The House by the Medlar Tree) | Giovanni Verga, Judith Landry
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Day 19 - #ADNF

As I do not bail on books, here we are with a book that I will not red for sure!!

Eggs It happens! 3y
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Astroneman
I Malavoglia: The House by the Medlar Tree | Giovanni Verga, Verga Giovanni
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Pickpick
IuliaC Amazing tree 😍 3y
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