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Boredom
Written by Alberto Moravia
Translated by Angus Davidson
Introduction by William Weaver

eBook | 352 pages | NYRB Classics | Fiction - Literary
978-1-59017-483-8 (1-59017-483-6)

July 20, 2011 | $14.95



The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society. Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young...

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That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana
Written by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Translated by William Weaver
Introduction by Italo Calvino

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | NYRB Classics | Fiction - Literary
978-1-59017-222-3 (1-59017-222-1)

February 27, 2007 | $18.95

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That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana
Written by Carlo Emilio Gadda, Translated by William Weaver, Introduction by Italo Calvino

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781590172223
Our Price: $18.95
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In a large apartment house in central Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and a murder, as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called...


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The Late Mattia Pascal
Written by Luigi Pirandello
Translated by William Weaver
Introduction by Charles Simic

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | NYRB Classics | Fiction
978-1-59017-115-8 (1-59017-115-2)

November 30, 2004 | $17.95

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The Late Mattia Pascal
Written by Luigi Pirandello, Translated by William Weaver, Introduction by Charles Simic

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781590171158
Our Price: $17.95
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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...


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Boredom
Written by Alberto Moravia
Translated by Angus Davidson
Introduction by William Weaver

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | NYRB Classics | Fiction
978-1-59017-121-9 (1-59017-121-7)

July 31, 2004 | $17.95

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Boredom
Written by Alberto Moravia, Translated by Angus Davidson, Introduction by William Weaver

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781590171219
Our Price: $17.95
   Quantity: 1 


The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following the World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society. Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached...

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