Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories
Author(s): Giovanni Verga, Nathan Haskell Dole
Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, Literary Fiction
Narrators: Mary J
Number of Chapters: 9
Length: 02 hours and 14 minutes
Language: English
The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in rural, 19th-century Sicily. One of these stories, "Rustic Chivalry," or "Cavalleria rusticana," was the basis for the opera of the same name by Mascagni. - Summary by Mary J
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The audiobook Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories falls under the genres of Culture & Heritage Fiction, Literary Fiction. It is written by Giovanni Verga, Nathan Haskell Dole.