{"product_id":"9781612190839","title":"The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003e...the sin of an old man is equal to about two sins of a young man.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fable-like story of an old man's sexual obsession with a young woman  is a distillation of Italo Svevo's concerns--attraction of an older man  to a younger woman, individual conscience versus social convention, and  the cost of sexual desire. This novella is a marvel of psychological  insight, following the man's vacillations and tortuous  self-justifications to their tragic-comic end. It is presented here in a  translation first commissioned and published by Virginia Woolf for her  Hogarth Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Art of The Novella Series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173373165808,"sku":"9781612190839","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612190839_p0.jpg?v=1763841831","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612190839","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}