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Realistic novel of Sicilian life by Giovanni Verga, published in Italian in 1889. Mastro-don can be translated "Sir-Workman," a title that embodies the story's central dilemma. The protagonist, Gesualdo Motta, is a peasant who becomes a wealthy landowner through hard work and judicious business practices, but he cannot rise socially despite his marriage to the noble Bianca Trao. The decadence of the unbending Trao family is repeatedly contrasted with the honesty, strength, vitality, ingenuity, and ambition of Gesualdo. He is unable to understand why he becomes alienated from both the gentry and the peasantry; this lack of insight is the source of his tragedy. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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real literature, but somewhat slow and depressing,
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The setting and the people of rural Italy at the end of the last century is thoroughly and thoughfully depicted. The story itself could be told rather quickly, but here it is told in great detail.
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THEY were ringing sunrise mass at San Giovanni; but the village still slept heavily, because for three days it had been raining, and on the plough-land you sank half up to your knees. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages:
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