The Lily of the Valley
Contributors: Lucienne Hill (Translator)
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Published: July 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780881844825
Subjects: Classics; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: What unknown talent, fed with tears, will some day give us the most moving elegy; the portrayal of torments undergone in silence by souls whose still tender roots meet nothing but hard pebbles in the soil of home; whose first green shoots are torn by hate-filled hands, whose flowers are nipped by frost just as they open?