The House By The Medlar-Tree

Giovanni Verga is the most important of the Italian Realist School of novelists. The House by the Medlar-Tree is the story of the Malavoglia, a family of poor Sicilian fisherman, is Verga's moving rendering of the theme of mankind's struggle for self-betterment, the dignity of the struggle in the face of poverty and hardship, and the tragedy that the struggle inevitably incurs.

• • Author: Giovanni Verga, Mary A. Craig
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: May 07, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 224 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1533133379
• • ISBN-13: 9781533133373