Zeno's Conscience

VERY GOOD+ condition — DUST JACKET: Very good condition. No issues. BOARDS: Very good condition. No issues. BOOK: Very good condition. Very small stain on textblock foredge. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. ********************************************************* Here on offer is a very nice copy of Italo Svevo's pyschological novel, Zeno's Conscience, the humorous memoirs of Zeno Cosini, a neurotic Italian businessman. This copy is a 1st edition thus, 3rd printing of the work translated from the Italian by William Weaver, and published by Everyman's Library in 2001. ********************************************************* Everyman's Library was conceived in 1905 by London publisher Joseph Malaby Dent, whose goal was to create a 1,000-volume library of world literature that was affordable for, and that appealed to, every kind of person, from students to the working classes to the cultural elite. Dent followed the design principles and to a certain extent the style established by William Morris in his Kelmscott Press. . . . **** By 1975, Dent's vision had been well surpassed, as Everyman's Library consisted of 994 titles published in 1,239 volumes. . . . **** [The Classics series is] printed on a fine acid-free, cream-wove paper that will not discolour with age, with sewn, full cloth bindings and silk ribbon markers, . . . . All books include substantial introductions by major scholars and contemporary writers, and comparative chronologies of literary and historical context. ****************************************************** "Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind in question belongs to Zeno Cosini, a neurotic Italian businessman who is writing his confessions at the behest of his psychiatrist. Here are Zeno’s interminable attempts to quit smoking, his courtship of the beautiful yet unresponsive Ada, his unexpected–and unexpectedly happy–marriage to Ada’s homely sister Augusta, and his affair with a shrill-voiced aspiring singer. Relating these misadventures with wry wit and a perspicacity at once unblinking and compassionate, Zeno’s Conscience is a miracle of psychological realism. ****************************************************** Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 1861 – 13 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. **** A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), which became a widely appreciated classic of Italian literature. He was also the cousin of the Italian academic Steno Tedeschi. ********** The above text was taken from Knopf Doubleday publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia. [Svevo, Italo. Zeno's Conscience. United Kingdom: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015.].