- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Italy -- Fiction, Villages -- Fiction
<p>Giovanna and Costantino Ledda are a happily married young Sardinian couple living a contented village existence with their small child and extended family. But after Costantino is wrongly convicted of murdering his uncle and imprisoned, the now‐impoverished Giovanna reluctantly divorces him under a newly enacted divorce law and marries Brontu Dejas, a wealthy but cruel drunkard who has always coveted her.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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- First published
- 1902
- Pages
- 214
- Publisher
- Franklin Classics, Creative Media Partners, LLC, Northwestern University Press
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9781533259783
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Italian writer. In 1926, Grazia Deledda was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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