Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) - the largest Italian playwright and prose writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934 "for creative courage and ingenuity in the revival of dramatic and stage art." This volume includes the most popular plays by L. Pirandello - "Six Characters in Search of the Author" and "Henry IV," his best novel "The Late Mattia Pascal" and short stories, most of which have not been reprinted for a long time.