The Late Mattia Pascal.
by Luigi Pirandello
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0233988440
- ISBN 13
- 9780233988443
- Seller
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Synopsis
English: The novel is about Mattia Pascal, who leaves home after one of the usual quarrels with his wife Romilda, and arrives in Monaco, where he wins thousands of pounds. So much money and a news story that he reads -announcing his death ( but it is the corpse of a desperate man who killed himself by jumping into a well)- suggests him to simulate its death and to start a new life. Mattia renamed Adriano Meis went to live in Rome. And... Italian: Il romanzo narra la storia di Mattia Pascal, che si allontana di casa dopo una delle consuete liti con la moglie Romilda, e, arrivato a Montecarlo, vince decine di migliaia di lire. Il possesso di una grossa somma e la lettura di una notizia di cronaca che annuncia la sua morte (una bufala; in realtà si tratta del cadavere di un disperato che si è ucciso gettandosi nel pozzo di casa Pascal), lo inducono a simulare la propria morte e a tentare di cominciare una nuova vita. Mattia ribattezzato Adriano Meis va a vivere a Roma. E...
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 46761
- Title
- The Late Mattia Pascal.
- Author
- Luigi Pirandello
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus in the UK [1993], so stated.
- ISBN 10
- 0233988440
- ISBN 13
- 9780233988443
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch Limited,
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1993.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature: World; Authors K-P; Modernist Fiction; Italian Literature; Contemporary Fiction; American Popular Fiction;
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