Primo Levi's classic memoir of The Camps.

Presenting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, this title ranges from young love to political savagery; from the inert gas argon - and 'inert' relatives like the uncle who stayed in bed for twenty-two years - to life-giving carbon.

Reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, they link up, fall apart, struggle to stay alive and to sabotage the efforts of the all-powerful German army.

Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. If This is a Man describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spent working in Auschwitz. The Truce covers his long journey home to Italy at the end of the war through Russia and Central Europe.

Written with eleoquence and shot through with deep humanity, this title covers topics ranging from young love to political savagery.

Levi's examination of what it meant to have survived the Holocaust.

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 ever with unforeseen consequences, while Magic Paint sees a group of researchers develop a paint that

A fabulous, funny novel narrated by a multi-talented storyteller

A selection of short stories that opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. It includes stories such as: The Fugitive , Magic Paint , Gladiators , The Knall , and, The Tranquil Star .

Brings together the author's writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist.

Over the course of more than 25 years, Primo Levi gave more than 200 newspaper, journal, radio and television interviews, speaking with such varied authors as Philip Roth and Germaine Greer. The editors have selected and translated 36 of the most important of these inteviews for this book.

Twenty-five years of the best of Primo Levi's essays or matters as diverse on The Holocaust and the Austrian Wine-as-anti-freeze scandal.

Provides a report on living conditions in the concentration camp for Russian authorities. Representing the attempts at fathoming the horrors, this work details the deportation to Auschwitz, selections for work and extermination, everyday life in the camp, and the organization and operation of the gas chambers.

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. This book features stories that are an elegy to those who stood out against the background of Auschwitz.

In 1944 Primo Levi was sent to Buna-Monowitz, a subsidiary of Auschwitz. This book provides an opportunity to encounter Levi's poetic treatment of these appalling events and their painful psychological aftermath. His two books of poetry, Shema and Ad Ora Incerta , are contained in this book.

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Each of the 21 chapters in this autobiography takes its title and starting point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, science and personal record, history and anecdote, Levi uses his years as a prisoner in Auschwitz to illuminate the human condition.

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Over the course of more than 25 years, Primo Levi gave more than 200 newspaper, journal, radio and television interviews, speaking with such varied authors as Philip Roth and Germaine Greer. The editors have selected and translated 36 of the most important of these inteviews for this book.