Item #902 Little Novels of Sicily. Translated by D. H. Lawrence. Giovanni Verga.
Sicily in the 1860's

Little Novels of Sicily. Translated by D. H. Lawrence.

New York: Grove Press, 1953. Item #902

8vo.  226 pp.  Original cloth, dust jacket; jacket with creasing along the folds at the spine and tips, minor loss at the head and tail of spine.

First American edition.  Called by Lawrence "the greatest writer of Italian fiction, after Manzoni",  these twelve stories of Sicily in the 19th century capture the texture of the lives of Sicilian peasants and the enviroment in which they live their lives.

Price: $25.00

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