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An extraordinary work in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and starting point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as a chemist and his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz to illuminate the human conditContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sun, 26 Sep 2010
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Aaron, Gabriel and Bonaparte
Once in an unguarded moment when I was trying to illustrate the unbounded nature of human vanity, I shamefacedly admitted to my daughter that I, too, outwardly so cool-headed and realistic about my slender talents, cherished in the back of my mind a ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 240 Pages
- Edition: Reissue
- ISBN-10: 0805210415
- ISBN-13: 9780805210415
- Publisher: Schocken
- Pub date: Apr 04, 1995
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, School & Library Binding and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780805210415 | Paperback | $14.00 | $10.08 | bn.com |
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Elizabeth Bennet 
The heart of the matter
Primo Levi, who was until 1976 the manager of a chemical factory in Turin, says that for him, Mendeleev's Periodic Table, was poetry 'loftier and more solemn than all the poetry we had swallowed down in liceo, and come to think of it, it even rhymed. ... (read full critics)