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Christ Stopped at Eboli
Memoir by Carlo Levi, published in 1945, giving an account of his exile from 1935-1936 to Grassano and Aliano, remote towns in southern Italy, in the region of Lucania which is known today as Basilicata
If This Is a Man
Memoir by Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi, first published in 1947. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until the camp was liberated on 27 January 1945.
Tristes Tropiques
Memoir, first published in France in 1955, by the anthropologist and structuralist Claude Lvi-Strauss
Rosemary’s Baby
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A Grief Observed
Collection of C. S. Lewis’s reflections on the experience of bereavement following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960. The book was first published in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk, as Lewis wished to avoid identification as the author
Liar’s Poker
American bar game that combines statistical reasoning with bluffing, and is played with the eight digits of the serial number on U.S. dollar bills
Voices of the Old Sea
After World War II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now Costa Brava. Voices of the Old Sea describes his three successive summers in that almost medieval community where life revolved around the seasonal sardine catches, Alcade’s bar, and satisfying feuds with neighboring villages.It’s …