Question: ???Nasty Foxfur??? 

Answer: Giovanni Verga - Life in the country, from the story "roso malpelo" translated into English as 'Nasty Foxfur' and it's protagonist, an ill-behaved, fatherless boy who works in the mines, and sets the reader's mind ticking and puzzling straightaway
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