by Giovanni Verga · Newton Compton Editori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788879831284
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«Storia di una capinera» is the epistolary novel by Giovanni Verga, published by Newton Compton Editori in paperback (100 pages, in Italian).
A young novice, Maria, temporarily leaves the convent during a cholera epidemic and reunites with her family in the countryside. There she discovers life outside the cloister and falls in love with Nino, her stepsister's fiancé. Her letters to her friend Marianna narrate an impossible love marked by sacrifice and social conventions.
The novel was originally published in 1871; this complete 1993 edition belongs to the Tascabili Economici Newton collection and includes an introduction.
For readers of nineteenth-century Italian classics and romantic dramas focused on the inner life of their protagonists.
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.
