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A Tranquil Star by Primo Levi; Ann Goldstein; Alessandra Bastagli (Translator)
42.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle-aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older ...Show more
A Tranquil Star - Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi
24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. In "The Fugitive" an office worker composes the most beautiful poem eve ...Show more
Aethelred: The Unready by Levi Roach
39.99 AUD
Category: History
An imaginative reassessment of Aethelred "the Unready," one of medieval England's most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Aethelred "the Unready" (978-1016) has long been considered to be inscrutable, irrational, and poorly advised. Infamous for his domestic and internati ...Show more
Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi
16.99 AUD
Category: History
While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was then forgotten, and has until now remained unknown to a wider public. Dating from the weeks and months immediately a ...Show more
Auschwitz Testimonies 1945-1986 by Primo Levi
30.95 AUD
Category: Judaica
In 1945, soon after liberation, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions in Auschwitz. The result was an extraordinary testimony and one of the first acco ...Show more
Australian Genesis: Jewish Convicts and Settlers 1788-1860 by John S. Levi
49.95 AUD
89.95 (44% off)
Category: Judaica
This is a work of sustained scholarship, a unique social history of Australia's Jewish population. John Levi can fairly claim that it reads like a thriller.
Black Dog by Levi Pinfold
14.99 AUD
Category: Early Readers
A black dog appears outside the Hope family's home. As each member of the household sees it and hides, the dog grows bigger and bigger. Only Small, the youngest Hope, has the courage to face the Black Dog. When it chases her through the forest she shows no fear, so it grows smaller and smaller. Finally, ...Show more
Black Dog by Levi Pinfold
32.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A black dog appears outside the Hope family's home. As each member of the household sees it and hides, the dog grows bigger and bigger. Only Small, the youngest Hope, has the courage to face the Black Dog. When it chases her through the forest she shows no fear, so it grows smaller and smaller. Finally, ...Show more
Black Dog by Levi Pinfold (Illustrator)
10.00 AUD
42.99 (76% off)
Category: Picture Books
An enormous black dog and a very tiny little girl star in this offbeat tale about confronting one's fears. When a huge black dog appears outside the Hope family home, each member of the household sees it and hides. Only Small, the youngest Hope, has the courage to face the black dog, who might not be as ...Show more
Cashmere: A French Passion 1800-1880 by Monique Levi-Strauss
120.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
The delicate beauty of the cashmere shawl was first brought to Europe by the East India Companies and Napoleon's campaigns. Woven in Kashmir, its fabric was so light that, according to legend, a whole shawl could be passed through a finger ring. Exquisite and expensive, by the 19th century these shawls ...Show more
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia by Levi Roach
24.99 AUD
Category: History
'In this fascinating, panoramic account, Levi Roach brings an expert eye and page-turning energy to the telling of their extraordinary story' Helen Castor, bestselling author of She Wolves'A fresh retelling of the story of the Normans . . . written with enthusiasm and brio' Marc Morris, bestselling auth ...Show more