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Bulgaria can easily be called a mountainous country. Almost half of its territory is home to different in size, height, character and origin mountainous...

“Friend Alfio,” began Turridu after he had walked quite a bit of the way beside his companion, who remained silent, with his cap drawn...

Now that the husband was home again, Turridu no longer wasted his days in the little street, but drowned his sorrow at the tavern...

“I am crazy about you,” Turridu would say; “I am losing my sleep and my appetite.”“I don`t believe it!”“I wish I was the son...

“I`d like to take her from under his very eyes, the dirty dog!” he muttered.Across from Alfio`s house lived Master Cola, the vine-grower, who...

“It is a blessing to have sight of you!” said he.“Oh, friend Turridu, I was told that you came back around the first of...

Giovanni Verga (1840—1922)With Verga we find ourselves in modern times. The dawn of the Nineteenth Century found Italy in the full flood of that...

She came to know what heavy housework meant and the odious cares of the kitchen. She washed the dishes, using her rosy nails on...

She wrote at his dictation.At the end of a week they had lost all hope.And Loisel, who had aged five years, declared:“We must consider...

She saw first of all some bracelets, then a pearl necklace, then a Venetian cross, gold, and precious stones of admirable workmanship. She tried...