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The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
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 pain and darkness of the Holocaust and its aftermath, Levi reflects on the dif ...Show more
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'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
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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
The Survivor (Mini Modern Classics) by Primo Levi
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place'A selection of poetry from the author of If this is a Man and The Periodic Table.
The Wrench by Primo Levi
Category: Classics
'This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us ever made but words. I say it is "about" the man who ...Show more