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Grazia Deledda

Works by Grazia Deledda

The Woman and the Priest, or the Mother [Buy Direct]

by Grazia Deledda
Translated by M.G. Steegman
Original title: La madre

Structured like a classical tragedy, this is a ‘Portrait in Black’ of the harrowing conflict between love and duty, between an individual and the law. The conflict occurs within the narrow confines of a Sardinian village, (more...)

After the Divorce [Buy Direct]

by Grazia Deledda
Translated by Susan Ashe
Original title: Dopo il divorzio

Cosima [Buy Direct]

by Grazia Deledda
Translated by Martha King
Original title: Cosima

Grazia Deledda was a noted writer of the 1920s from a poor corner of Sardinia and this is her only discernibly autobiographical work, where she tells the story of her childhood and youth, paying attention to interior realities as much as exterior ones. It’s a diary in the form of a novel, (more...)

Reeds in the Wind [Buy Direct]

by Grazia Deledda
Translated by Martha King

Chiaroscuro and Other Stories

by Grazia Deledda
Translated by Martha King

Elias Portolu

by Grazia Deledda
Translated by M King
Original title: Elias Portolu

Elias Portolu is an emblematic story of the head-on collision between the modern civilisation of bourgeois individualism and the archaic law of the clan which still prevails among the Sardinian people. The novel follows the story of a young man, Elias Portolu, (more...)

After the Divorce [Buy Direct]

by Grazia Deledda

Elias Portolu (European Classics) [Buy Direct]

by Grazia Deledda
Translated by Martha King