If This Is a Man • The Truce
Author: Primo Levi
With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, 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 most endearing human event….Read More
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Engleby
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Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups
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The Diary of a Nobody
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If Not Now, When?
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