Gli Idioti = The Idiots by Joseph Conrad
"Gli Idioti = The Idiots" by Joseph Conrad is a short story first published in 1896. Set in rural Brittany, it follows a farming couple whose children are born with intellectual disabilities. As the strain of their circumstances intensifies, Jean-Pierre and Susan Bacadou face mounting desperation about their family's future and the farm's succession. The story builds toward a violent climax involving murder and suicide, all framed by the narrator's encounter with
"the idiots" on a country road. Conrad's first published story explores themes of isolation and human desperation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 |
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| Editor | Mansion, J. E. (Jean Edmond), 1870-1942 |
| Translator | Campioni, Hilda |
| Title | Gli Idioti = The Idiots |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idiots_(short_story) |
| Credits |
Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 61.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| Language | Italian |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | English fiction -- 19th century |
| Subject | Farmers -- Fiction |
| Subject | Husband and wife -- Fiction |
| Subject | Families -- Fiction |
| Subject | Brittany (France) -- Fiction |
| Subject | English fiction -- Translations into Italian |
| Subject | Children with mental disabilities -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 63893 |
| Release Date | Nov 27, 2020 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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