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  • House by The Medlar Tree

    Giovanni Verga

    eBook (, June 29, 2017)
    House by The Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
  • House by The-Medlar-Tree

    Giovanni Verga, Mary A. Craig, W. D. Howells

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Dec. 13, 2017)
    House by The-Medlar-Tree by Giovanni Verga. An English edition, The House by the Medlar-Tree (1890) translated by Mary A. Craig was published in the Continental Classics series. This work belongs to the Ciclo dei vinti, together with Mastro-don Gesualdo, La Duchessa di Leyra, L'Onorevole Scipioni and L'uomo di lusso, works which deal with the problem of social and economical advancement. La Duchessa de Leyra remained only a draft, while the last two novels planned for the Ciclo, L'Onorevole Scipioni and L'Uomo di Lusso, were not even started. I Malavoglia deals with a family of fishermen who work and live in Aci Trezza, a small Sicilian village near Catania. The novel possesses a choral aspect, and depicts characters united by the same culture, but divided by ancient rivalries. Any one who loves simplicity or respects sincerity, any one who feels the tie binding us all together in the helplessness of our common human life, and running from the lowliest as well as the highest to the Mystery immeasurably above the whole earth, must find a rare and tender pleasure in this simple story of an Italian fishing village. I cannot promise that it will interest any other sort of readers, but I do not believe that any other sort are worth interesting; and so I can praise Signor Verga’s book without reserve as one of the most perfect pieces of literature that I know. When we talk of the great modern movement towards reality we speak without the documents if we leave this book out of the count, for I can think of no other novel in which the facts have been more faithfully reproduced, or with a profounder regard for the poetry that resides in facts and resides nowhere else. Signor Verdi began long ago, in his Vita dei Campi (“Life of the Fields”) to give proof of his fitness to live in our time; and after some excursions in the region of French naturalism, he here returns to the original sources of his inspiration, and offers us a masterpiece of the finest realism.
  • The House by the Medlar Tree

    Giovanni Verga

    Hardcover (Franklin Classics, Oct. 12, 2018)
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
  • The House by the Medlar Tree;

    W. D. Howells, Mary A. Craig

    Hardcover (Wentworth Press, March 7, 2019)
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
  • The House by the Medlar-Tree

    Giovanni Verga

    Paperback (RareBooksClub.com, Oct. 12, 2012)
    This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...galley-slave's work it was from Monday morning till Saturday night--and he was tired of wearing out his soul for nothing, for when one has nothing, what good can come of driving away from morning till night, with never a dog to be friends with one either, and for that he had had enough of such a life. He preferred rather to da nothing at all, and stay in bed, as if he were sick, as they did on board ship when the service was too hard, for the grandpapa wouldn't come to pull him and thump him like the ship's doctor. "What's the matter?" he asked. "Nothing. Only I'm a poor miserable devil." "And what can be done for you, if you are a poor miserable devil? We must go on as we come into the world." He let himself be loaded down with tackle, like a beast of burden, and the whole day long never opened his mouth except to growl and to swear. On Sunday 'Ntoni went hanging about the tavern, where people did nothing but laugh and amuse themselves; or else he sat for whole hours on the church steps, with his chin in his hands, watching the people passing by, and pondering over this hard life, where there was nothing to be got by doing anything. At least on Sunday there was something that cost nothing--the sun, the standing idle with hands in one's pockets; and then he grew tired even of thinking of his hard fate, and longing to bask again in the strange places he had seen when he was a soldier, and with the memory of which he amused himself on working-days. He only cared to lie like a lizard basking in the sun. And when the carters passed, sitting on their shafts, he muttered, "They have an easy time of it, driving about like that all day long"; and when some poor little old woman came from the town, bent down...
  • The House by the Medlar Tree

    Giovanni Verga

    Paperback (Franklin Classics, Oct. 12, 2018)
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
  • The House by the Medlar Tree

    Giovanni Verga, Mary a. Craig

    Hardcover (Literary Licensing, LLC, March 29, 2014)
    This Is A New Release Of The Original 1890 Edition.
  • The House by the Medlar-Tree

    Giovanni Verga

    eBook (Giovanni Verga, March 6, 2016)
    Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) is the most important of the Italian Realist School of novelists. The story deals with a family of fishermen who work and live in Aci Trezza, a small Sicilian village near Catania. The novel possesses a choral aspect, and depicts characters united by the same culture, but divided by ancient rivalries.Verga adopts the impersonality technique, reproducing some features of the dialect and adapting himself to the point of view of the characters. In doing so, he renounces the customary mediation of the narrator.
  • The House by the Medlar Tree

    Giovanni Verga, Mary a. Craig

    Paperback (Literary Licensing, LLC, March 30, 2014)
    This Is A New Release Of The Original 1890 Edition.
  • The House by the Medlar Tree;

    W. D. Howells, Mary A. Craig

    Paperback (BiblioBazaar, Nov. 18, 2009)
    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. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.
  • The House by the Medlar-Tree

    Giovanni Verga

    eBook (, Sept. 7, 2020)
    The House by the Medlar-Tree by Giovanni Verga
  • The House by the Medlar-Tree

    Giovanni Verga

    eBook (, Sept. 16, 2020)
    The House by the Medlar-Tree by Giovanni Verga