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The Periodic Table: A Memoir by Levi, Primo
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A book that has been read, but is in good condition. Minimal damage to the book cover eg. scuff marks, but no holes or tears. If this is a hard cover, the dust jacket may be missing. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. No highlighting of text, no writing in the margins, and no missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 0805210415
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0805210415
ISBN-13
9780805210415
eBay Product ID (ePID)
551806
Product Key Features
Book Title
Periodic Table : a Memoir
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Italy, Personal Memoirs, Literary
Publication Year
1995
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Book Series
Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.9 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
54-000053
Reviews
"I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed." -Saul Bellow "The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."-Italo Calvino "A work of healing, of tranquil, even buoyant imagination." - The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant, grave and oddly sunny; certainly a masterpiece." - Los Angeles Times "Every chapter is full of surprises, insights, high humor, and language that often rises to poetry." - The New Yorker "One of the most important Italian writers." -Umberto Eco, "I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated…I was deeply impressed." Saul Bellow "The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."Italo Calvino "A work of healing, of tranquil, even buoyant imagination." The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant, grave and oddly sunny; certainly a masterpiece." Los Angeles Times "Every chapter is full of surprises, insights, high humor, and language that often rises to poetry." The New Yorker "One of the most important Italian writers." Umberto Eco With a new Introduction by Neal Ascherson, "I immersed myself inThe Periodic Tablegladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated…I was deeply impressed." Saul Bellow "The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."Italo Calvino "A work of healing, of tranquil, even buoyant imagination." The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant, grave and oddly sunny; certainly a masterpiece." Los Angeles Times "Every chapter is full of surprises, insights, high humor, and language that often rises to poetry." The New Yorker "One of the most important Italian writers." Umberto Eco With a new Introduction by Neal Ascherson From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
853.9/14
Synopsis
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 his years as a student and young chemist at the inception of the Second World War, and of his investigations into the nature of the material world. As such, it provides crucial links and backgrounds, both personal and intellectual, in the tremendous project of remembrance that is Levi's gift to posterity. But far from being a prologue to his experience of the Holocaust, Levi's masterpiece represents his most impassioned response to the events that engulfed him. The Periodic Table celebrates the pleasures of love and friendship and the search for meaning, and stands as a monument to those things in us that are capable of resisting and enduring in the face of tyranny., An extraordinary work in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and starting point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as a chemist and his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz to illuminate the human condition.
LC Classification Number
PQ4809.A45
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- n***0 (999)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseLike new, excellent value, first rate quality and appearance. quick shipping too. This is one of my favorite non-fiction books to give away. Levi was a chemist in the paint and varnish business, and a graceful writer. Each chapter is named after the element is centers on. Most are autobiographical, one an imagined memior from an ice-age metallurgist who produces lead, another story concerns mercury. An Italian Jew, he recieved his chemistry degree as WWII was starting. He survived Auschwitz,
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A compelling book about chemistry and the Holocaust in easy-to-read segments, good for teenagers and adults.
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Great literature
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- n***0 (999)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseLike new, excellent value, first rate quality and appearance. quick shipping too. This is one of my favorite non-fiction books to give away. Levi was a chemist in the paint and varnish business, and a graceful writer. Each chapter is named after the element is centers on. Most are autobiographical, one an imagined memior from an ice-age metallurgist who produces lead, another story concerns mercury. An Italian Jew, he recieved his chemistry degree as WWII was starting. He survived Auschwitz,
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