Ivy

by Grazia Deledda

Book Overview

Annesa, one of Grazia Deledda's most enigmatic and dramatic characters, battles with a guilt she suffers when her own strength tempts her to a crime that will save others who won't save themselves. Annesa has tragically attached herself to the tree of the Decherchi family, once noble but now dry-rotting on hard times. Her lover, Paulu Decherchi, compares her to a suffocating ivy clinging to the dead trunk.

Distraught almost to the point of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599103788
• ISBN13: 9781599103785
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Italica Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"