Mastro-don Gesualdo

Name: Mastro-don Gesualdo
Author: Giovanni Verga

by Giovanni Verga

Novel of a builder's relentless social climbing and ultimate moral dissolution in Sicily

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Giovanni Verga

Italian novelist and short story writer who was the leading figure of verismo, the Italian naturalist movement. His portrayals of Sicilian peasant life in I Malavoglia and Mastro-don Gesualdo are masterpieces of unsparing realism.

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