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The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
The Periodic Table
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'A book it is necessary to read' - Saul Bellow. In these haunting reflections, Primo Levi, a chemist by training, takes the elements of the periodic table as his starting point and inspiration. Written with understated eleoquence and shot through with deep humanity, Levi ranges from young love to... show more
'A book it is necessary to read' - Saul Bellow. In these haunting reflections, Primo Levi, a chemist by training, takes the elements of the periodic table as his starting point and inspiration. Written with understated eleoquence and shot through with deep humanity, Levi ranges from young love to political savagery in this, one of his most famous works.
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ISBN: 9780349121987 (0349121982)
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, History, Literature, European Literature, Science, World War II, Short Stories, Italian Literature, Holocaust, Chemistry
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Kinga's Books
Kinga's Books rated it
4.5 Primo Levi - The Periodic Table
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Chemistry as a metaphor for life. Blurb writers love phrases like that. They are short, succinct and intriguing. But how hard is it to write something that would deliver on such a promise?I had never read anything quite like ‘The Periodic Table’. It more than delivered – it exceeded my expectations....
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simmo
simmo rated it
4.0 The Periodic Table
text The Periodic Table
I was expecting a book about, well, the Periodic Table, instead it is a collection of partly autobiographical, partly fictitious, partly historical short chapters about individual elements through the eyes of a chemist. It is very cleverly, wittily written, though at times rambles on incoherently. T...
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Bookivorous
Bookivorous rated it
5.0 The Periodic Table
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Levi's series of essays based on the elements of the periodic table. By turns fascinating, hilarious and tragic as he takes moments from his time in Auschwitz, from his life after the war and mixes them with short pieces of fiction. Extraordinary and wonderful.
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Other editions (9)
The Periodic Table (Penguin Modern Classics) - Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal
The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
The Periodic Table - Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal
The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
Periodic Table - Primo Levi
Periodic Table - Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal
The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
Periodic Table - Primo Levi
The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
Books by Primo Levi
Survival in Auschwitz - Primo Levi, Stuart J. Woolf, Philip Roth
If This Is a Man / The Truce - Primo Levi, Stuart Woolf, Paul Bailey
The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
Moments of Reprieve (Penguin Modern Classics) - Primo Levi
The Periodic Table (Penguin Modern Classics) - Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal
If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi, Irving Howe, William Weaver
The Reawakening - Primo Levi, Stuart J. Woolf
The Magic Paint (Mini Modern Classics) - Primo Levi
A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Short Stories - Primo Levi, Ann Goldstein, Alessandra Bastagli
The Mirror Maker: Stories and Essays - Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal, Lorenzo Mondo
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