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| Books LLC : Italian Short Story Writers: Italo Calvino, Carlo Collodi, Primo Levi, Dino Buzzati, Italo Svevo, Giovannino Guareschi, Angela Bianchini | |
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Italian Short Story Writers: Italo Calvino, Carlo Collodi, Primo Levi, Dino Buzzati, Italo Svevo, Giovannino Guareschi, Angela Bianchini |
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English |
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Paperback |
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120 |
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2010-09-15 |
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1155911504 |
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Books LLC |
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0.57 pounds |
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5.98 x 8.9 x 0.39 inches |
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Chapters: Italo Calvino, Carlo Collodi, Primo Levi, Dino Buzzati, Italo Svevo, Giovannino Guareschi, Angela Bianchini, Alberto Moravia, Curzio Malaparte, Cesare Pavese, Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Raffaele Palma, Alessandro Baricco, Edmondo de Amicis, Massimo Bontempelli, Natalia Ginzburg, Filippo Anfuso, Ernesto Aloia, Simonetta Greggio, Luigi Chiarelli, Gesualdo Bufalino, Tommaso Landolfi, Gianluca Bedini, Giorgio Pressburger, Laurentius Abstemius. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 118. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Primo Michele Levi (pronounced ; 31 July 1919, Turin, Piedmont 11 April 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist and writer. He is best known for If This Is a Man, published in the U.S. as Survival in Auschwitz, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. It has been described as one of the most important works of the twentieth century. Primo Levi was born in Turin at Corso Re Umberto 75 into a liberal Jewish family. His father Cesare worked for the manufacturing firm Ganz and spent much of his time working abroad in Hungary, where Ganz was based. Cesare was an avid reader and autodidact. Levis mother Ester, known to everyone as Rina, was well educated, having attended the . She too was an avid reader, played the piano and spoke fluent French. The marriage between Rina and Cesare was arranged by Rinas father. On their wedding day, Rinas father, Cesare Luzzati, gave Rina the apartment at where Primo Levi was to live for almost his entire life. In 1921 Anna Maria, Levi's sister was born; he was to remain close to her all of his life. In 1925 he entered the primary school in Turin. A thin and delicate child, he was shy and thought of himself as being ugly, but he excelled academically. His school record include...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=39425
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