by Primo Levi Translated by R Rosenthal Original title: Il sistema periodico
The Periodic Table is an unusual and intriguing book in which Primo Levi’s double vocation of industrial chemist and writer find themselves in happy alliance. In its twenty-one short pieces named after different elements of the periodic table (Argon, Zinc, Carbon etc. (more...)
by Giovanni Verga Translated by R Rosenthal Original title: I Malavoglia
First published in 1881, this bitter novel is the first part of a narrative cycle intended to foreground the life of the humble, the disinherited, the perennially defeated. The painful story of the Malavoglias, a fishing family, unwinds against the backdrop of a Sicilian village, (more...)