The movie is adapted from Giovanni Verga's novel I Malavoglia (1881) (The House by the Medlar Tree) for the screen.
The relationship between The Diothas and Looking Backward is complicated by another prior work, The Great Romance (1881).
It was first published in 1881 by William Lazenby who printed 250 copies; a further edition was produced by Leonard Smithers in 1902.
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