Die Witwe von Pisa by Paul Heyse

"Die Witwe von Pisa" by Paul Heyse is a novella published in 1865. A German architect travels to Italy to study leaning towers and rents a room from Lucrezia, an attractive opera singer and young widow. While her uncle searches for her missing husband, allegedly killed by bandits, Lucrezia pursues her lodger with increasing intensity. The architect, hiding his own engagement back home, grows desperate to escape her advances before losing his sanity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Heyse, Paul, 1830-1914
Title Die Witwe von Pisa
Note Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Witwe_von_Pisa
Credits Produced by Delphine Lettau
Reading Level Reading ease score: 75.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Italy -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 9086
Release Date
Last Update Jan 2, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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