books by Ignazio Silone (fascismo italian origini)

books by Ignazio Silone

books:

The Abruzzo Trilogy: Fontamara, Bread and Wine, The Seed Beneath the Snow (v. 1-3)
Ignazio Silone

Zoland Books, 2000

The impoverished, desolate mountain regions of the Abruzzo during Mussolini's reign provide the backdrop for the three greatest novels by Ignazio Silone, one of the twentieth century's most important writers. In Fontamara , Bread and Wine , and The Seed Beneath the Snow - presented together for the first time in English to mark the centenary of the author's birth - Silone narrates the struggles of the cafoni, the farmers and peasants ...

Fontamara.
Ignazio Silone

Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1997

Fontamara
Ignazio Silone

Atheneum, 1960

Fontamara (Italian Texts) (Italian Edition)
Ignazio Silone

Manchester University Press, 1977

Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. It was written in 1933 and was well-known in translation before it could be published in Italy. In England it was very popular in its Pengiun edition. Its author, Ignazio Silone, was a controversial figure throughout his life. He was a communist until 1931, later referring to himself as a 'Socialist without a party and a Christian without a church.' He wrote Fontamara first ...

The God That Failed
Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, ...

Columbia University Press, 2001

The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and subsequent disillusionment with communism. In describing their own experiences, the authors illustrate the fate of leftism around the world. André Gide (France), Richard Wright (the United States), Ignazio Silone (Italy), Stephen Spender (England), Arthur ...

Bread and Wine
Ignazio Silone

Signet, 1963

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Bread and Wine (Signet Classics)
Ignazio Silone

Signet Classics, 2005

One of the 20th century's essential novels depicting Fascism's rise in Italy. Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro Spina, Italy comes alive with priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, all on the brink of war.