About this title: 'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by custom and sorrow, without comfort or solace, where, eternally patient, the peasants lived in an age-old stillness and in the presence of death - for Christ did stop at Eboli.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York: Time Incorporated, 1964 C1947
Description: Octavo, softcover, White pictorial wraps with brown lettering. VG to near fine. 274 pages. Translated from the Italian by Frances Frenaye. Author's account of living one year in exile in the south of Italy in 1935. Memoir. Includes book mark with book review.. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Paper
Publisher: Penguin, New York
Date Published: 1948
Description: Cover Art. Good. No Jacket. Vintage Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Cover Price. ? cents----------#656--------The cover has some shelf wear and the top corner has a crease....The pages has yellowing...The plastic covering is getting loose.... read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Time Incorporated, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good + 5 x 8 trade paperback book. Black lettering on the white and illustrated spine and cover. A true account of a year that the author spent in a back-ward, malaria ridden southern Italian village, Gagliano, in the province of Lucania. 274 pages. Mild front and rear cover stains. Tight binding. Good + condition. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Time Inc.
Date Published: 1964
Description: Fine. This book is part of the Time Reading Program Special Edition series. This book is in fine to as new condition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. It appears to have not been read. The cover has some very minor bumps and scuffs. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Time Life Books
Date Published: 1982
Description: Fine. This book is part of the Time Reading Program Special Edition series. This book is in fine condition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. It appears to have not been read. The cover has some very minor bumps and scuffs. There is no creasing on the spine. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780140183115ISBN:0140183116
Description: Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780141183213ISBN:0141183217
Description: Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Pocket Books, New York
Date Published: 1965
Description: Good. Paperback. 6 3/4h x 4 1/4w. A nice 228 page 1st printing Pocket Books paperback. Picture showing is a scan of our book. States: First Printing April 1965. Carlo Levi's timeless and moving depiction of classism and poverty in Lucania, a small Italian town where the vehemently anti-Fascist Levi was confined in 1935 as a political prisoner. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780140055559ISBN:014005555X
Description: Good. Page colour-Slightly discoloured in accordance with book age. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! read more
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: New York, N. Y
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780140055559ISBN:014005555X
Description: Good. No Jacket. 014005555X Good. No Jacket Good. No DJ Issued Good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Italian. 253 p. : map; 20 cm. King Penguin. Includes Maps. read more
Description: First printing. 12mo., 228pp., wrappers. Translated from the Italian by Frances Frenaye. Pages mildly tanned, otherwise a fine, unread copy. read more
"This is an amazing book. The author, Carlo Levi, writes about his life as an Italian dissident during Mussolini's Fascist regime. He was exiled to a small village in southern Italy......I highly recommend this wonderful book."
"Carlo Levi, a young anti-fascist with a medical degree who chose to paint, write and oppose Mussolini rather than to practice medicine, was exiled in the 1930s to what was then called Lucania and is now known as Basilicata. The area was and is one of the poorest regions of Italy. The people of the village in the mountains in which he spent most of a year said that they were so isolated that even Christianity stopped before it reached them.
Levi, a native of Turin, could hardly have been sent to a more remote area or one more different from his city in northern Italy. Yet, he thoughtfully and affectionately tells the story of the superstitions, political maneuvering,love, hope, despair and unending hard work of the locals. The people and the place take on life through Levi's descriptions. As was Levi's departure, coming to the end of the book is bittersweet."
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