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1	Periodic Table more books like this by Primo Levi 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 in bed for twenty-two years - to life-giving ... see all copies from £2.06! new only from £7.27! \| first editions
2	Survival in Auschwitz, The Nazi assault on humanity. more books like this by Primo Levi In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. "Survival in Auschwitz" is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for ... see all copies from £5.74! new only from £6.12!
3	The drowned and the saved more books like this by Primo Levi Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The matter of his death was sudden, violent and unpremiditated, and there were some who argue that he killed himself because he was tormented by guilt - guilt that he had survived the horrors of Auschwitz while others, better than he, had gone to the wall. THE ... see all copies from £2.72! new only from £9.12! \| first editions
4	If not now, when? more books like this by Primo Levi 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, they link up, fall apart, struggle to stay ... see all copies from £1.40! new only from £8.07! \| first editions
5	If this is a man ; and, The truce more books like this by Primo Levi '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 in touch with the minutest workings of the ... see all copies from £3.24! new only from £8.07!
6	Other people's trades more books like this by Primo Levi The essays in this book include some of the subjects that fascinated Primo Levi - the house he lived in all his life, butterflies and spiders, imaginary creatures dreamed up by children, Rabelais, writing a novel, returning to school at 60 and the need for fear. Throughout the book there are glimpses of long lost childhood summers, his ... see all copies from £2.06! new only from £19.97! \| first editions
7	The Voice of Memory: Interviews 1961-1987 more books like this by Primo Levi, Marco Belpoliti (Editor), Robert Gordon (Translator) Over the course of more than twenty-five years, Primo Levi gave more than two hundred newspaper, journal, radio and television interviews speaking with such varied authors as Philip Roth and Germaine Greer. Marco Belpoliti and Robert Gordon have selected and translated thirty-six of the most important of these interviews for The Voice of Memory.We ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £7.44! \| first editions
8	Survival in Auschwitz more books like this by Primo Levi (Photographer) Originally entitled, IF THIS IS A MAN, Levi's narrative of his experiences at Auschwitz is unique among Holocaust memoirs for its simplicity, its lack of self-pity, and its objectivity; he often emphasizes not his own sufferings but the many instances of goodness he found among his fellow prisoners. In an appendix, Levi stated: "[I]n writing this ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £11.88! \| first editions
9	The Monkey's Wrench more books like this by Primo Levi Primo Levi's novel consists of a series of fable-like stories exchanged by two men: a construction worker and a writer who is (like Levi) also a chemist. One of the serious messages of Levi's comic tales is that meaningful work is essential for a happy and fulfilled life. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £9.11! \| first editions
10	Moments of Reprieve: A Memoir of Auschwitz more books like this by Primo Levi Levi records the stories of his friends and enemies at Auschwitz, in an attempt to preserve the horrifying Holocaust experience--the central purpose of Levi's life and work. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £8.39! \| first editions
11	Moments of reprieve more books like this by Primo Levi This collection of 15 short stories reflect life and death in Auschwitz during the Second World War. Each story features a different protagonist, all survivors of the horrors of life in a concentration camp. They explore the costs of survival and the nature of common morality. see all copies from £1.81! new only from £12.34! \| first editions
12	The Mirror Maker more books like this by Levi A varied selection of works by the Italian-Jewish writer famed for his Holocaust writings, this volume includes Levi's thoughts on Kafka, Jack London, and other writers, as well as short stories on themes that range from somber to ephemeral. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £9.27! \| first editions
13 view cover	The search for roots : a personal anthology more books like this by Primo Levi "The Search for Roots" is an anthology of writing that Primo Levi considered to be essential reading. Beginning with The Book of Job, that drama of the just oppressed by injustice, these thirty pieces with introduction by Levi, reflect his profound knowledge of science and deep passion for literature, and his survival of Auschwitz, making it a ... see all copies from £5.43! new only from £6.62! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Reawakening: The Companion Volume to Survival in Auschwitz more books like this by Primo Levi, Stuart J Woolf (Translator) Levi writes about his liberation from Auschwitz, the long struggle to return to his home in Italy, and his painful disorientation from his old life. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £8.76!
15 view cover	If this is man ; and, The truce. more books like this by Primo Levi Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. "If This is a Man" describes his deportation to Poland and the 20 months he spent working in Auschwitz. "The Truce" covers his journey home to Italy at the end of the war. see all copies from £10.04! new only from £10.04!
16	The Reawakening more books like this by Prino Levi, Primo Levi Levi writes about his liberation from Auschwitz, the long struggle to return to his home in Italy, and his painful disorientation from his old life. see all copies from £5.60! first editions
17 view cover	A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi more books like this by Primo Levi, Ann Goldstein (Translator), Alessandra Bastagli (Translator) The first English publication of seventeen classic Primo Levi stories marks the twentieth anniversary of his death. ""In Levi's writing, nothing is superfluous and everything is essential.""--Saul Bellow "A Tranquil Star," the first new American collection of Primo Levi previously untranslated fiction to appear since 1990, affirms his position ... see all copies from £6.27! new only from £11.18! \| first editions
18 view cover	Auschwitz Report more books like this by Primo Levi, Robert S C Gordon (Editor), Judith Wolf (Translator) Immediately following his release from Auschwitz in 1945, Primo Levi, along with Dr Claudio Debenedetti, was asked to provide a report on living conditions in the concentration camp for Russian authorities. Published the following year, it was then forgotten and has until now remained unknown to a wider public. Representing the very first attempts ... see all copies from £9.08! new only from £9.74! \| first editions
19	The Sixth Day and Other Tales: And Other Tales more books like this by Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal (Translator) Informed by Levi's sly and scientific imagination, the fictions in this collection explore a strangely familiar parallel universe in which scientific advances, gone unchecked, create a dehumanized and amoral world where machines write poetry and replicate anything--including human beings. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £73.56! \| first editions
20	Se Questo E Un Uomo: La Tregua more books like this by Primo Levi Originally entitled, IF THIS IS A MAN, Levi's narrative of his experiences at Auschwitz, SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ, is unique among Holocaust memoirs for its simplicity, its lack of self-pity, and its objectivity; he often emphasizes not his own sufferings but the many instances of goodness he found among his fellow prisoners. In an appendix, Levi ... see all copies from £8.38! new only from £29.95!
21 view cover	The mirror maker : stories & essays more books like this by Primo Levi '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: and in twenty-five years many things change, ... see all copies from £2.05! new only from £8.07! \| first editions
22 view cover	Commandant at Auschwitz: The Autobiographys of Rudolf Hoess more books like this by Rudolf Hoess, Constantine Fitzgibbon (Translator), Primo Levi (Introduction by) An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered some three million Jews, from the time of its creation (he was responsible for building it) in 1940 until late in 1943, by which time the mass exterminations were half completed. Before this he had worked in other ... see all copies from £8.07! new only from £8.07! \| first editions
23 view cover	Survival in Auschwitz more books like this by Levi Primo Levi Survival in Auschwitz: If This Is a Man is a book written by the Italian author, Primo Levi. It describes his experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his shipment, Levi ... see all copies from £7.35! new only from £7.35!
24 view cover	The Black Hole of Auschwitz more books like this by Primo Levi, Marco Belpoliti (Editor), Sharon Wood (Translator) "The Black Hole of Auschwitz" brings together Levi's writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist. In this book Levi rails intelligently and eloquently against what he saw as the ebb of compassion and interest in the Holocaust ... see all copies from £9.00! new only from £10.81!
25	The Monkey's Wrench: 2a Novel more books like this by Primo Levi, William Weaver (Translator) Primo Levi's novel consists of a series of fable-like stories exchanged by two men: a construction worker and a writer who is (like Levi) also a chemist. One of the serious messages of Levi's comic tales is that meaningful work is essential for a happy and fulfilled life. see all copies from £5.60! new only from £5.60! \| first editions

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