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The House by the Medlar Tree

by Giovanni Verga

First published
1881
Pages
208
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  1. Introduction

    7:09

  2. Chapter 1

    24:22

  3. Chapter 2

    35:39

  4. Chapter 3

    13:43

  5. Chapter 4

    25:06

  6. Chapter 5

    23:00

  7. Chapter 6

    37:38

  8. Chapter 7

    38:45

  9. Chapter 8

    29:03

  10. Chapter 9 Pt 1

    28:09

  11. Chapter 9 Pt 2

    27:54

  12. Chapter 10

    39:04

  13. Chapter 11

    42:13

  14. Chapter 12

    34:19

  15. Chapter 13 Pt 1

    26:10

  16. Chapter 13 Pt 2

    30:00

  17. Chapter 14 Pt 1

    25:09

  18. Chapter 14 Pt 2

    21:51

  19. Chapter 15 Pt 1

    24:56

  20. Chapter 15 Pt 2

    24:14

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The Toscanos of Aci Trezza are known to everyone in the village as the Malavoglia, the ill-willed ones, which is a village joke since they never stop working. They own a boat, a house by the medlar tree, and a decent name, and over the course of Verga's 1881 novel they lose all three. It begins with a cargo of lupins bought on credit and a storm that wrecks the boat and drowns a son, and from there the debts, deaths, and broken engagements arrive one after another while the neighbors watch and comment. Verga built his prose out of village speech and let the community do much of the narrating, which made this the founding work of Italian verismo. D. H. Lawrence thought enough of him to translate him. Free PDF and EPUB edition here.

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Giovanni Verga

Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) was a Sicilian novelist and the leading figure of verismo, Italy's answer to French naturalism. He abandoned fashionable romantic fiction for the fishermen and peasants of his native island. His story Cavalleria rusticana became the basis for Mascagni's opera.

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First published
1881
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
208
Language
English
Formats
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Audio read by
Tom Denholm