The Complete Works of Primo Levi

Levi, Primo

ISBN 10: 0871404567 / ISBN 13: 9780871404565

Published by Liveright, 2015

About this Item

3 vol. set in slipcase. In black and grey hardcovers with gilt titles to spines. With unclipped dust jackets with black titles and black and white photographs to spines. Housed in a black and white slipcase with black and white titles to two sides and a black and white photograph to the third. 2910 pp. in total.

The books are in near fine condition. Vol. III has a bumped corner to the head of the spine, the other vols. covers are free of shelf-wear. The bindings are tight and the pages clean and unmarked. They appear to be unread. The dust jackets are also near fine. Vol III has a bumped corner to the head of the spine and a trace of shelf-wear to the bottom edge of the front, the jackets of the other vols. are free of shelf-wear. The slipcase is very good with just minor bumping to one corner and scratches and dent to one side.

The collected volumes weigh over 4 kg., additional postage will be required, for sale in UK only. Gift Aid no. 8262. This item is being sold under the Retail Gift Aid scheme to support Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust. Gift Aid enables us to increase the value of donations by 25%. Amnesty International UK Section is acting as an agent selling this item on behalf of one of our Gift Aid Donors.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Works of Primo Levi
• Publisher: Liveright
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871404567
• ISBN 13: 9780871404565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 167.64W x 248.92H x 152.4D millimeters 167.64 millimeters width by 248.92 millimeters height by 152.4 millimeters depth
• Weight: 4082 grams

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Synopsis

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post and Library Journal
A Holiday Gift Guide Selection in the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection

The Complete Works of Primo Levi, which includes seminal works like If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, finally gathers all fourteen of Levi’s books―memoirs, essays, poetry, commentary, and fiction―into three slipcased volumes.

Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that “quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest’s most astute intelligence,” has largely been considered a heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-century literature for If This Is a Man, his haunting account of Auschwitz. Yet Levi’s body of work extends considerably beyond his experience as a survivor. Now, the transformation of Levi from Holocaust memoirist to one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers culminates in this publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi. This magisterial collection finally gathers all of Levi’s fourteen books―memoirs, essays, poetry, and fiction―into three slip-cased volumes. Thirteen of the books feature new translations, and the other is newly revised by the original translator. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison introduces Levi’s writing as a “triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction.” The appearance of this historic publication will occasion a major reappraisal of “one of the most valuable writers of our time” (Alfred Kazin).

The Complete Works of Primo Levi features all new translations of: The Periodic Table, The Drowned and the Saved, The Truce, Natural Histories, Flaw of Form, The Wrench, Lilith, Other People’s Trades, and If Not Now, When?―as well as all of Levi’s poems, essays, and other nonfiction work, some of which have never appeared before in English.

About the Authors

Primo Levi (1919–1987) was an Italian chemist and writer, best known for his memoirs If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table.

Ann Goldstein, the editor of The Complete Works of Primo Levi and the award-winning translator of Elena Ferrante’s novels, is a former editor at The New Yorker.

Toni Morrison is a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.