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  • Gramsci in Love

    Gramsci in Love is a fictional account of the love life of the famous Italian communist leader Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), focusing on his curious relationships with the three Schucht sisters, Evgenia, Tatiana and his wife Julia. It is set against the background of the Soviet Revolution and the Fascist takeover in Italy. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Antonio Gramsci

    A Biography

    Series series Communist Lives
    A historical biography of the Italian philosopher/politician Antonio Gramsci (1891-1973), considered one of the most important Marxist philosophers of the twentieth-century. As part of the Communist Lives series, Andrew Pearmain explores the life of Gramsci from his childhood, to his role in the newly formed Communist Party of Italy, and to his imprisonment and death in Turi di Bari, using recent ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

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  • This Has Happened

    An Italian Family in Auschwitz

    by Piera Sonnino ...
    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    National Jewish Book Awards Finalist. "Concise, restrained, and tightly written, a look from the inside of the Holocaust out." — Entertainment WeeklyFive years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her parents, three brothers, and two sisters by the Nazis. Discovered in 2005 in Italy and first published in English in 2006, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Trieste And Meaning Of Nowhere

    by Jan Morris ...
    A book for lovers of all things Italian -- an homage to the city of Trieste.This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After visiting Trieste for more than half a century, she has come to see it as a touchstone for her interests and preoccupations: cities, seas, empires. It has even come to reflect her own life in its loves, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • With Hitler and Mussolini

    Memoirs of a Nazi Interpreter

    An insider’s view of Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich, and Mussolini.In the years before World War II, Eugen Dollmann arrived in Rome on a scholarship, intending to write a history of the Catholic Church. Instead he joined the Nazi Party and became an interpreter to various members of the German and Italian Fascist hierarchy.In this capacity Dollmann attended the Munich Conference of 1938 and was present ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Diary of a Man in Despair

    Translated by Paul Rubens ...
    Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people, he felt compelled to record the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Journey by Moonlight

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **An early-twentieth-century classic — the turbulent, dreamlike story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemia“No one who has read it has failed to love it.” — Nicholas Lezard**Mihály and Erzsi are on honeymoon in Italy. Mihály has recently joined the respectable family firm in Budapest, but as his gaze passes over the mysterious back-alleys of Venice, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Karl Marx

    by Francis Wheen ...
    A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.The history of the 20th century is Marx's legacy. Not since Jesus Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion – or been so calamitously misinterpreted. The end of the century is a good moment to strip away the mythology and try to rediscover Marx the man. There ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Landscapes

    John Berger on Art

    by John Berger ...
    “Essential reading”—n+1Creative and political art criticism on landscape works from the Renaissance to the present from a “master” storyteller (Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things)In this brilliant collection of diverse pieces—essays, short stories, poems, translations—which spans a lifetime’s engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing. He ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Emergence of Memory

    Conversations with W.G. Sebald

    by W.G. Sebald ...
    When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mussolini's Italy

    Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945

    With Mussolini s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth-the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English-vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth centurys most notorious political experiments. Il Duces Fascists were the original totalitarians, espousing a cult of violence and obedience that inspired many other dictatorships, Hitlers first among them. But as ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Black Hole of Auschwitz

    by Primo Levi ...
    Translated by Sharon Wood ...
    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, and the yearly assault on the veracity and moral ... Read more

    $20.00 USD