by Giovanni Verga · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788876924460
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«Storia di una capinera» is the epistolary novel by Giovanni Verga, published by Studio Tesi in 1994 in paperback (115 pages, in Italian).
Nineteenth-century epistolary novel. Maria, a young woman without religious vocation, is sent by her father to a convent; during a brief stay in the countryside she discovers life outside the walls and falls in love. Her letters to her friend Marianna show her growing turmoil and the conflict between love and the social conventions of the era.
Written in 1869 and originally published in 1871, it is Verga's first novel. This 1994 edition belongs to the Piccola Biblioteca Universale collection.
For readers of Italian classics and nineteenth-century epistolary novels; Zeffirelli's film adaptation may also appeal to cinephiles.
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.
