The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl

By Italo Svevo

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933633891
• ISBN13: 9781933633893
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.1"