10 must-read classics books like Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year by Mark Rotella, Carlo Levi, Frances Frenaye

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Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year

By: Mark Rotella , Carlo Levi , Frances Frenaye

4.11

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi―a doctor, painter, philosophe…

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1. Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year

By: Mark Rotella , Carlo Levi , Frances Frenaye

4.11

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi―a doctor, painter, philosophe… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • literature
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • italian literature
Cover of Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo, William Weaver

2. Zeno's Conscience

By: Italo Svevo , William Weaver

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available i… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • italian literature
Cover of Conversations in Sicily by Ernest Hemingway, Elio Vittorini, Alane Salierno Mason

3. Conversations in Sicily

By: Ernest Hemingway , Elio Vittorini , Alane Salierno Mason

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

It stands as a modern classic not only for its powerful thematic resonance as one of the great nove… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • italian literature
Cover of Fontamara by Ignazio Silone

4. Fontamara

By: Ignazio Silone

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Fontamara fu pubblicato a Zurigo nel 1933. Ambientato in un paesino abruzzese, Fontamara appunto, r… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • 20th century
  • italian literature
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5. Poem Strip

By: Dino Buzzati , Marina Harss

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

A New York Review Books Original There's a certain street--via Saterna--in the middle of Milan that… read more

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  • italy
  • 20th century
  • italian literature
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6. Una questione privata

By: Beppe Fenoglio

3.79

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

Nelle Langhe, durante la guerra partigiana, Milton (quasi una controfigura di Fenoglio stesso), è u… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • italian literature
"Non poteva più vivere senza sapere e, soprattutto, non poteva morire senza sapere, in un'epoca in cui i ragazzi come lui erano chiamati più a morire che a vivere. Avrebbe rinunciato a tutto per quell…"

-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata

"Scattò tutta la testa verso di lui e disse: «Come comincerai la tua prossima lettera? Fulvia dannazione?» Lui aveva scosso la testa, frusciando i capelli contro la corteccia del ciliegio. Fulvia si a…"

-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata

"Era successo proprio all’altezza dell’ultimo ciliegio. Lei aveva attraversato il vialetto ed era entrata nel prato oltre i ciliegi. Si era sdraiata, sebbene vestisse di bianco e l’erba non fosse più …"

-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata

Cover of Il giorno della civetta by Leonardo Sciascia

7. Il giorno della civetta

By: Leonardo Sciascia

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

Di questo romanzo breve sulla mafia, apparso per la prima volta nel 1961, ha scritto Leonardo Scias… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • italian literature
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8. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno

By: Italo Calvino

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno e il romanzo d'esordio di Italo Calvino. Protago… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • italian literature
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9. History

By: Elsa Morante , Lily Tuck

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Historywas written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hidin… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • italian literature

10. La luna e i falò

By: Cesare Pavese , Gian Luigi Beccaria

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nell'aprile del 1950 e considerato dalla critica il libro piu bello di Pavese, "La luna … read more

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11. La casa in collina

By: Cesare Pavese

4.70

Format: 84 pages,

Il momento forse piu alto della maturita dello scrittore Cesare Pavese: la storia di una solitudine… read more

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12. The Leopard

By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • italian literature
"While there’s death there’s hope"

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

13. I Malavoglia

By: Giovanni Verga

4.67

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Nei Malavoglia (1881) Verga si immerge nella realta locale di un paese siciliano, Aci Trezza, e rac… read more

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14. L'Agnese va a morire

By: Renata Viganò

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Renata Vigano ha scritto una <>che ha l'esatta semplicita di pensieri e gesti quotidiani, in uno st… read more

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15. Il sergente nella neve

By: Mario Rigoni Stern , Eraldo Affinati

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

I ricordi della ritirata di Russia scritti in un lager tedesco dall'alpino Rigoni Stern nell'invern… read more

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16. Ragazzi di vita

By: Pier Paolo Pasolini

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Pasolini e diventato famoso con questo romanzo acre, violento, fortissimo. La miseria italiana, i b… read more

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17. Agostino

By: Alberto Moravia

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Agostino, un adolescent de treize ans, passe de merveilleuses vacances sur une plage avec sa mere a… read more

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18. Boredom

By: Alberto Moravia , William Weaver , Angus Davidson

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following the World War… read more

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19. Gli indifferenti

By: Alberto Moravia , Eileen Romano , Edoardo Sanguineti , Tonino Tornitore

3.88

Format: 373 pages,

Gli indifferentie il primo romanzo scritto da Moravia appena diciottenne e pubblicato nel 1929. Tem… read more

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20. Retablo

By: Vincenzo Consolo

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

In Retablo protagonista e proprio la Sicilia, attraversata avventurosamente dall'eterna coppia nobi… read more

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