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A tightly contained psychological drama set in a remote Sardinian hill village traces the emotional turmoil of a peasant mother and her son, a young parish priest, once the product of her sacrifices. When a solitary woman enters the parish, the son’s suppressed human desires clash with his clerical vows, and the mother confronts terror, devotion, and a new empathetic questioning of religious strictures. Over the course of two intense days the narrative maps internal conflicts, communal superstitions, and quiet domestic detail, culminating in an inevitable, tragic resolution shaped by love, conscience, and social law.

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Title: The mother

Author: Grazia Deledda

Translator: Mary G. Steegmann

Release date: October 22, 2025 [eBook #77111]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923

Credits: Sean/IB@DP

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MOTHER ***

THE MOTHER

by
GRAZIA DELEDDA


Translated from the Italian
by

MARY G. STEEGMANN

GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers
by arrangement with
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY


PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


Copyright, 1923,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1923.
Reprinted August, 1928.
Reprinted October, 1928.


[Contents]

Translator’s Note · Preface ·
Chapter I · Chapter II · Chapter III · Chapter IV · Chapter V · Chapter VI · Chapter VII ·
Chapter VIII · Chapter IX · Chapter X · Chapter XI · Chapter XII · Chapter XIII · Chapter XIV