Pirandello, Luigi 1867-1936

The late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello ( Book )
412 editions published between 1904 and 2012 in 8 languages and held by 2,091 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life--only to find that this new existence is as insufferable as the old one. But when he returns to the world he left behind, it's too late: his job is gone, his wife has remarried. Mattia Pascal's fate is to live on as the ghost of the man he was. An explorer of identity and its mysteries, a connoisseur of black humor, Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello is among the most teasing and profound of modern masters. "The Late Mattia Pascal," here rendered into English by the outstanding translator William Weaver, offers an irresistible introduction to this great writer's work

Novelle per un anno : an anthology by Luigi Pirandello ( Book )
695 editions published between 1922 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 2,033 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Short stories by Luigi Pirandello ( Book )
17 editions published between 1959 and 1987 in English and held by 1,518 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collection of twenty-two stories by the Italian dramatist. Contains a chronology and an introduction by Frances Keene

Three plays by Luigi Pirandello ( Book )
54 editions published between 1922 and 2013 in English and Italian and held by 1,426 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Maschere nude by Luigi Pirandello ( Book )
333 editions published between 1918 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 1,143 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Maschere nude" è il titolo che Pirandello stesso ha scelto per la raccolta dei propri testi teatrali: un ossimoro, immagine di un teatro nel quale l'uomo che si è dato (o al quale è stata imposta) una "maschera" ne scopre la nudità": maschere smascherate, quindi, vestiti denudati

Six characters in search of an author by Luigi Pirandello ( Book )
54 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in English and French and held by 767 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Luigi Pirandello's masterpiece, "Six Characters in Search of an Author", presents the playwright's views about the isolation of the individual from society and from himself. This play within a play chronicles six characters as they seek an author to tell their story, and to present their real lives on stage. But do their realities make better tales than fiction?

To clothe the naked, and two other plays by Luigi Pirandello ( Book )
6 editions published between 1900 and 1962 in English and held by 749 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Uno, nessuno e centomila by Luigi Pirandello ( Book )
176 editions published between 1926 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 656 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Uno, nessuno e centomila (1925-26, One, none, and a hundred-thousand), a story about husband's descent into madness ... His despair begins when his wife comments on a slight defect of his nose - it tilts to the right

Tutti i romanzi by Luigi Pirandello ( Book )
113 editions published between 1941 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 602 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Each in his own way, and two other plays by Luigi Pirandello ( Book )
15 editions published between 1923 and 1951 in English and held by 570 WorldCat member libraries worldwide