D. H Lawrence
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First Published in a single volume in 1883, the stories collected in Little Novels of Sicily are drawn from the Sicily of Giovanni Verga's childhood, reported at the time to be the poorest place in Europe. Verga's style is swift, sure, and implacable; he plunges into his stories almost in midbreath, and tells them with a stark economy of words. There's something dark and tightly coiled at the heart of each story, an ironic, bitter resolution that...
2) The rainbow
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Set between the 1840's and the early years of the twentieth century, The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, ancient occupiers of Marsh Farm Nottinghamshire. Against a backdrop of dramatic social change and through the Brangwen family's courting and marriages, Lawrence explores Love and the conflicts it brings.