After the divorce
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| Author | Grazia Deledda |
|---|---|
| Original title | Dopo il divorzio |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
| Publisher | Roux e Viarengo |
Publication date | 1902 |
Published in English | 1905 |
After the Divorce is a novel by Italian author Grazia Deledda.
Plot
This tragedy is set in Sardinia Constantino Ledda is convicted on charges for murdering his bad uncle. Constantino is innocent, but he accepts the verdict because of her wife Giovanna. After Constantino is convicted, Giovanna has no economic means to support her family, so she divorces her husband and marries again with a wealthy but cruel landowner. Constantino is released after the real killer confesses, and he and Giovanna start a forbidden romance.
Bibliography
- Title: After the Divorce
- Author: Grazia Deledda
- Translated by: Susan Ashe
- Editor Northwestern University Press, 1995
- ISBN 0810112493, 9780810112490
- 174 pages
External links
- After the Divorce at Project Gutenberg (1905 Maria Hornor Lansdale translation)
- Dopo il divorzio Original Italian text.
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