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010 _a96008920
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050 0 0 _aPQ4872.E8
_bS513 1996
082 0 0 _a92 LEV
100 1 _aLevi, Primo
_d(, 1919-1987)
240 1 0 _aSistema periodico
_l. English
245 1 4 _aThe periodic table
_c/ Primo Levi ; translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal ; with an introduction by Neal Ascherson
260 _aNew York
_b: Alfred A. Knopf
_c, 1996.
300 _axxv, 241 p.
_b: ill.
_c; 21 cm.
490 0 _aEveryman's library
_v; 218
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. xvii).
520 _aThis 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.
650 4 _aAuthors, Italian
_y-20th century
_v--Biography
700 1 _aRosenthal, Raymond
942 _cMO
999 _c233614
_d233614