by Giovanni Verga · Newton Compton Editori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788854154544
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Written in 1869, this epistolary novel by Giovanni Verga is a poignant drama about Maria, a young woman forced into a convent against her will. Through her letters, she reveals her inner struggle between her religious confinement and her discovery of love and the outside world.
Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca was an Italian realist (verista) writer. His novels I Malavoglia (1881) and Mastro-don Gesualdo (1889) are widely recognized as masterpieces. Verga has been called the greatest Italian novelist after Manzoni. D. H. Lawrence translated several of his works into English.
