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The Merry-Go-Round of Love and selected stories
The MerryGoRound of Love and selected stories Author:Luigi Pirandello Pirandello is widely known as one of the great playwrights of the twentieth century. Yet before turning to the theater, he wrote a vast number of tales of extraordinary quality; this Signet Classic edition provides a memorable introduction to this facet of his genius. In settings that range from harsh Sicilian landscapes to the midnight street... more »s of Rome, these stories deal with the frustrations of youth and the despair of age, with couples caught in the tentacles of marriage, and men and women living in hopeless isolation; they vary in moon from the high comedy of The Merry-Go-Round of Love, a novella here rendered into English for the first time, to the Chekhovian tragedy of such superbly wrought tales as "Such Is Life."« less