num_pages: 128
description: Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbours, he chases his dreams - but the results are never the ones he had expected. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver.
language: English
title: Marcovaldo
titlecomplete: Marcovaldo
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Novels, School, Literature, Italian Literature, Italy, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 13210
places: Italy
publisher: Mariner Books