Il fu Mattia Pascal
by Pirandello, Luigi.:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Carlisle, United Kingdom
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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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- Bookseller
- Jane & John Kinnaird (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1707
- Title
- Il fu Mattia Pascal
- Author
- Pirandello, Luigi.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bemporad, Firenze, 1927 (terza ristampa).
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