The House by the Medlar-Tree

📖 Verga (1840-1922) was an Italian realist writer best-known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily. This novel, first published in the original Italian in 1881 as I Malavoglia, is recognized as his masterpiece. It tells the story of a group of fishermen living and working in a small Sicilian village near Catania and is reprinted from an English translation of 1890.