Deledda, Grazia. After the divorce. [†]$1.50. Holt.
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.
| + + | Bookm. 21: 270. My. ‘05. 400w. |
“The translation appears competent and sympathetic.”
| + | Critic. 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 340w. |
“As a picture of peasant characteristics and modes of thought it is perfect.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1007. My. 4, 05. 270w. |
“As a thing of beauty and a joy forever, the book is a failure; as a manifesto against divorce, it might be adopted by all good Catholics.”
| — + | Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 190w. |