An edition of Il fu Mattia Pascal (1904)

The late Mattia Pascal

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The late Mattia Pascal
Luigi Pirandello
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An edition of Il fu Mattia Pascal (1904)

The late Mattia Pascal

  • 3.75 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 32 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

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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Deutsch
Language
English
Pages
262

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Cover of: The late Mattia Pascal
The late Mattia Pascal
2005, New York Review Books
in English
Cover of: The late Mattia Pascal
The late Mattia Pascal
1993, Deutsch
in English
Cover of: Il fu Mattia Pascal.
Il fu Mattia Pascal.
1988, Mondadori
in Italian
Cover of: The late Mattia Pascal
The late Mattia Pascal: (Il fu Mattia Pascal)
1923, E. P. Dutton & Company
in English
Cover of: Il fu Mattia Pascal
Il fu Mattia Pascal: romanzo.
1919, Treves
in Italian - New ed.

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Edition Notes

Translated from the Italian.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
853.912
Library of Congress
PQ4835.I7 F813 1993g

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix262p. ;
Number of pages
262

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18642861M
ISBN 10
0233988440
OCLC/WorldCat
29688975
Library Thing
110650
Goodreads
1070588

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