The House by the Medlar Tree

LibriVox recording of The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga. (Translated by Mary A. Craig.) Read in English by Tom Denholm In a nineteenth century Sicilian fishing village, the Malavoglia family gambles everything on being able to profit from a cargo of lupin nuts. The cargo is lost at sea and a succession of misfortunes and tragedies assails the family. A masterpiece of social commentary hailed within Italy but neglected by the wider world, The House by the Medlar Tree ranks alongside the works of Zola, Dickens or Balzac among the great books of European literature. The book is the i