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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?

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?

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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. Matt...

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One of the 20th century's greatest literary artists and winner of the Nobel prize in 1934, Pirandello wrote "Her Husband" in 1911, before his well-known plays. For the first time, this important novel is translated into English, evoking in vivid detail the literary world in Rome at the turn of the century.

Masterly stories include "Little Hut, " "With Other Eyes, " "A Voice, " "Citrons from Sicily, " "A Character's Tragedy, " six more. English translations.