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If This is a Man: The Truce by Primo Levi; Stuart Woolf (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Abacus Bks. | Reading Level: very good
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly ...Show more
The Last Interview - Conversation with Giovanni Tesio by Primo Levi
$28.95 AUD
Category: Biographies
At the start of 1987, Primo Levi took part in a remarkable series of conversations about his early life with a friend and fellow writer, Giovanni Tesio. This book is the result of those meetings, originally intended to be the basis for an authorized biography and published here in English for the first ...Show more
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone' Inspired by the rhythms of the "Periodic Table", Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the pai ...Show more
The Periodic Table: Popular Penguins by Primo Levi
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of ...Show more
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