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Title: Little Novels of Sicily: Stories by Giovanni Verga, D.H. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence ISBN: 1-883642-54-X Publisher: Steerforth Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The whole world is a small town
Comment: The whole world is a small town is a sicilian phrase that means no matter where you travel, people will be basically the same. Reading this work by G. Verga gave this saying a whole new meaning for me. I learned that people in Sicily are basically the same today as they were 120 years ago. Giovanni Verga was born and lived in a small town in Sicily called Vizzini. This is the same town that my parents are from. I have spent many summers with my grandmother there. The distant past was always portrayed as somehow better by my grandmother. According to her, our ancestors did not succomb to petty human weaknesses. After enjoying these short stories I realize that my grandmother remembered her youth more with nostalgic fantasy than historic accuracy. This work wonderfully portrays human motivations, strenghts and weaknesses. It was a wonderful revelation to realize that the whole world is a small town, not only in the dimension of space but also in the dimension of time.
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Title: The Leopard by Guiseppe Di Lampedusa ISBN: 0679731210 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 23 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Wine Dark Sea (New York Review Books Classics) by Leonardo Sciascia, Avril Bardoni, Albert Mobilio ISBN: 0940322536 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb ISBN: 0375704582 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 22 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: On Persephone's Island : A Sicilian Journal by Mary Taylor Simeti ISBN: 0679764143 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 26 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Giovanni Verga, G. H. McWilliam ISBN: 0140447415 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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