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Grazia Deledda

A Legendary Life

Martha King author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Troubador Publishing

Published:2nd Mar '05

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This is a timely and extensive biography of a writer who, in the early twentieth century, achieved such status in the literary world that publishers in Italy vied for her novels, and editors felt honoured to publish her short stories and 'sketches'. Now, almost seventy years after her death, her novels continue to be reprinted and translated, and critical appreciation of her work continues to grow. Her works still live and have the power to move her readers.

"King deals intelligently with [the] mix between Deledda's real life and fiction ... [she] illuminates without demystifying the contrasting impulses and experiences from which Deledda spun her legends." * Journal of Modern Italian Studies *

ISBN: 9781904744672

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235 pages