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A Tranguil Star. Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi by Primo Levi
$49.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Profound, moving and compassionate, Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. Here, for the first time in English, on the twentieth anniversary of his death, is a landmark selection of his fiction - all in brand new translations. These exquisitely wrought st ...Show more
A Tranquil Star - Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. In "The Fugitive" an office worker composes the most beautiful poem eve ...Show more
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
$33.99 AUD
Category: Classics
In the final days of World War II, a courageous band of Jewish partisans makes its way from Russia to Italy, moving toward the ultimate goal of Palestine. Based on a true story, If Not Now, When? chronicles their adventures as they wage a personal war of revenge against the Nazis: blowing up trains, res ...Show more
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, t ...Show more
If This is a Man: The Truce by Primo Levi; Stuart Woolf (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Iron Potassium Nickel by Primo Levi
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins Series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Boo ...Show more
Moments of Reprieve by Primo Levi
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. This book features stories that are an elegy to those who stoo ...Show more
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, and there are some who argue that he kiled himself because he was tormented by guilt - guilt that he had survived the horrors of Auschwitz while others, bette ...Show more
The Magic Paint by Primo Levi
$5.00 AUD
Category: Classics
'He was blamed for endless disasters, from failed exams to a bridge collapse, an avalanche, even a shipwreck: all due, in the stupid opinion of, first, his fellow-students and, later, his colleagues, to the penetrating power of his evil eye...' Profound and compassionate, Primo Levi was one of the most ...Show more
The Mirror Maker by Primo Levi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
I hope the reader will be indulgent toward the extreme dispersion of themes, tones, and angles of approach that he will find in this collection. My justification is: the 'pieces' are situated in an arc of time that is close to a quarter of a century, the time of my almost total fidelity to LA STAMPA: an ...Show more
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A chemist by training, Primo Levi became one of the supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from young love to political savagery; from the inert gas argon - and 'inert' relatives like the uncle who stayed i ...Show more