Excerpt from IL Segreto dell'Uomo Solitario: RomanzoL'uomo che ritorna dal paese si dirige con passo affrettato verso quel punto.Lasciali fare mormora, a testa bassa, come parlando all involto che tiene fra le mani. Pazienza, Cristiano: quando sei a casa tua cosa ti possono fare?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

IL Segreto dell'Uomo Solitario: Romanzo (Classic Reprint) (Italian Edition)

Grazia, Deledda

Romance

Forgotten Books

Cosima

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Quartet Books

<p>Short description: "Cosima" tells the story of an aspiring writer growing up in Nuoro, Sardinia during the last decades of the nineteenth century when formal education for women was rare and literary careers unheard-of. Based on Deledda’s own life, the work describes a young woman’s struggle against the dismay and disapproval of her family and friends at her creative ambitions. Yet it also reads like a charming fable with details of family life, rural traditions and wild bandits, and it is as much a novel of memory as of character or action. Deledda’s characters are poor country folk driven by some predetermined force. Their loves are tragic, their lives as hard and as rigidly controlled as nature itself in the hills of Sardinia. Deledda creates memorable figures who play out their lives against this backdrop of mountains and bare plains, sheepfolds and vineyards. Shimmering in the distance is the sea and escape — for a few — to the Continent or America. In 1926 Grazia Deledda became the second woman and the second Italian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. She wrote thirty-three novels, including "Reeds in the Wind," and many books of short stories, almost all set on Sardinia. Her work has become well known to English-speaking readers through Martha King’s translations for Italica Press.</p>

Italica Press

The Mother

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History

BiblioLife

A collection reviews published in Book Review Digest - Volume 1 [1905]: The author, a young Sardinian, has written a sad story of Italian peasant life. The hero is condemned to twenty-seven years imprisonment for the murder of his uncle. During his confinement, before the confession of the real murderer frees him and establishes his innocence, his baby dies and his pretty young wife, who lacks both money and character, secures a divorce, under the new law which liberates the wife of a convict, and marries a wealthy lover whom she had once rejected. The story is a pitiful one, and when at last the two are reunited they are saddened, disillusioned, and their young happiness is gone forever.  * * * * "In style she is as simple and unaffected as Verga himself. She effaces herself almost wholly, she makes you see the primitive life of her little island almost as vividly as though you were there in person."  —Frederic Taber Cooper for The Bookman "The translation appears competent and sympathetic."  —The Critic "As a picture of peasant characteristics and modes of thought it is perfect."  —The Independent "The translator has apparently preserved the color and flavor of the original. The book has a conscious moral tendency, it is, naturally, in that it is a narrative of simple Catholic people against divorce; and were it intended as a contributing pamphlet in the present cheerful international discussion, it would serve its purpose far more effectively than, for instance, M. Bourget's recent agitated tract on the same question. But the conditions here described are not representative. The young wife of a young man unjustly condemned to lifelong imprisonment for murder, discovers that there is a law granting divorce to wives of convicts, secures one, and marries an earlier suitor. All this is told with exceptional vividness, if also with unnecessary brutalities. The temperamental transitions of the selfish and unspiritual Giovanna are ruthlessly true. Then the author vigorously applies herself to picturing the retribution, a period so severe and prolonged as to exhaust the hardiest reader. The art of the book perhaps weakens as it advances. Many of its unpleasantnesses might be omitted altogether, and the final reunion of Giovanna and her first husband, the latter having been released from prison, affords a strangely false finale. The translation appears competent and sympathetic, and the service of bringing Signora Deledda’s work to the notice of English readers is no mean one. —The Critic

After the Divorce

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Mother is an unusual book, both in its story and its setting in a remote Sardinian hill village, half civilized and superstitious. But the chief interest lies in the psychological study of the two chief characters, and the action of the story takes place so rapidly (all within the space of two days) and the actual drama is so interwoven with the mental conflict, and all so forced by circumstances, that it is almost Greek in its simple and inevitable tragedy.   The book is written without offence to any creed or opinions, and touches on no questions of either doctrine or Church government. It is just a human problem, the result of primitive human nature against man-made laws it cannot understand.

Mother

Guro Verlag

Cenere fa parte dei romanzi della maturità artistica e umana dell’Autrice, e in esso sono presenti tutti gli elementi che l’hanno resa famosa e meritevole del Nobel. Primo fra tutti, il perfetto compenetrarsi tra i personaggi con i loro caratteri peculiari e la natura: quel paesaggio sardo che minuziosamente e magistralmente descrive, nel superamento di ogni incertezza linguistica di cui fu più volte accusata, è riempito di sfumature e palpiti vitali che ne rendono l’asprezza e l’aridità, musicali e vivifiche.

Cenere

L'edera

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Cuentos italianos (Spanish Edition)

D'Annunzio, Gabriele

Verga, Giovanni

De Amicis, Edmundo

SVEVO, Italo

PIRANDELLO, LUIGI

Short Stories & Anthologies

Gadir Editorial, S.L.

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