The Continental Dragoon: A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778Stephens, Robert Neilson
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The Continental Dragoon: A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778
Stephens, Robert Neilson
New York (State) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction
Cavalleria Rusticana; or, Under the Shadow of Etna.
Translated from the Italian of Giovanni Verga, by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE.
Illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry.
1 vol., 16mo, cloth =$0.50=
Giovanni Verga stands at present as unquestionably the most prominent
of the Italian novelists. His supremacy in the domain of the short
story and in the wider range of the romance is recognized both at home
and abroad. The present volume contains a selection from the most
dramatic and characteristic of his Sicilian tales. Verga is himself a
native of Sicily, and his knowledge of that wonderful country, with
its poetic and yet superstitious peasantry, is absolute. Such pathos,
humor, variety, and dramatic quality are rarely met in a single
volume.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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