TY - BOOK AU - De Roberto,Federico TI - La sorte AV - PQ PY - 2015/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Short stories, Italian KW - Italian fiction -- 19th century N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_sorte; Release date is 2015-08-28; La disdetta -- Ragazzinaccio -- San Placido -- Il matrimonio di Figaro -- Il «Reuzzo» -- Nel cortile -- La malanova -- Rivolta; Produced by Carlo Traverso, Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Original publication data not identified N2 - "La sorte" by Federico De Roberto is a short story collection published in 1887. This early work shows the influence of Giovanni Verga's writing, particularly his focus on rural Sicilian life. However, De Roberto turns his unflinching eye toward different subjects: the declining nobility and the aspiring lower middle class of Sicily. Through eight stories, he explores themes of fate and social ambition that would later define his mature works, offering a glimpse into the rigid class structures of 19th-century Italian society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49807 ER -