The periodic table / Primo Levi ; translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal ; with an introduction by Neal Ascherson

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Everyman's library ; ; 218Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1996.Description: xxv, 241 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780679444633
Uniform titles:
  • Sistema periodico . English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 92 LEV
LOC classification:
  • PQ4872.E8 S513 1996
Summary: This curious memoir by an Italian Jew who came of age under Mussolini is organized by the periodic table of the elements, chapter titles range from Argon to Zinc. Levi portrays himself as a young, aspiring chemist eager to fathom nature's secrets. The sections describing his ordeal in a detention camp, awaiting deportation to Auschwitz, are the most vivid.
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Libro - Monografía Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. 92 LEV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 015591

Includes bibliographical references (p. xvii).

This curious memoir by an Italian Jew who came of age under Mussolini is organized by the periodic table of the elements, chapter titles range from Argon to Zinc. Levi portrays himself as a young, aspiring chemist eager to fathom nature's secrets. The sections describing his ordeal in a detention camp, awaiting deportation to Auschwitz, are the most vivid.

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