Giovanni Verga (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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The published works of Giovanni Verga are of only two kinds, fiction and drama. Since he considered his primary vocation to be that of novelist, all his earliest publications are novels. His first play, written when he was twenty-nine, was never produced and remained unpublished until after his death. Eventually he wrote seven plays, all of them derived from his own works of fiction. He first turned to short fiction with a relatively lengthy story called Nedda. It was long enough, at any rate, to be accorded separate publication in a tiny volume in...
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