An edition of Il fu Mattia Pascal (1904)

The late Mattia Pascal

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An edition of Il fu Mattia Pascal (1904)

The late Mattia Pascal

  • 3.75 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 29 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 7 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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Pages
252

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Cover of: The late Mattia Pascal
The late Mattia Pascal
2005, New York Review Books
in English
Cover of: Il fu Mattia Pascal.
Il fu Mattia Pascal.
1988, Mondadori
in Italian
Cover of: The late Mattia Pascal
Cover of: Il fu Mattia Pascal
Il fu Mattia Pascal: romanzo.
1919, Treves
in Italian - New ed.

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New York

Edition Notes

Series
New York Review Books classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
853/.912
Library of Congress
PQ4835.I7 F813 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 252 p. ;
Number of pages
252

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21598223M
Internet Archive
latemattiapascal00luig
ISBN 10
1590171152
LCCN
2004017966
OCLC/WorldCat
57371325
Library Thing
110650
Goodreads
12116

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