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The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl

ISBN-13: 9781933633893

Contributor(s): Italo Svevo

Subject: Classic Fiction (Pre 1945)

Publisher Imprint: Melville House Publishing

Publication Date: 16-09-2010

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£8.99

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About the book

The fable-like story of an old man's sexual obsession with a young woman is a distillation of Italo Svevo's concerns: individual conscience versus social convention and the cost of desire. His novella is a marvel of psychological insight, following the man's vacillations and tortuous self-justifications to their tragicomic end. It is presented here in a translation first commissioned and published by Virginia Woolfe for her Hogarth Press.