{"product_id":"books-the-late-mattia-pascal-by-luigi-pirandello","title":"The Late Mattia Pascal","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Late Mattia Pascal\u003c\/i\u003e, here rendered into English by the outstanding translator William Weaver, offers an irresistible introduction to this great writer's work","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480496333073,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781590171158.jpg?v=1777548261","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-late-mattia-pascal-by-luigi-pirandello","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}