| Format | Paperback |
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Little Virtues
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| Print length: | 110 pages |
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| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Skyhorse Publishing |
| Publication date: | 1 August 2013 |
| Dimensions: | 13.97 x 0.76 x 20.96 cm |
| ISBN-10: | 1611457971 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1611457971 |
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“”As far as the education of children is concerned,”” states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, “”I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but a love of one’s neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.”” Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her first husband lived in forced residence under Fascist rule; or the importance of silence in our society; or her vocation as a writer; or even a pair of worn-out shoes, Ginzburg brings to her reflections the wisdom of a survivor and the spare, wry, and poetically resonant style her readers have come to recognize. “”A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburg’s magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart.”” — The New York Times Book Review —- ISBN: 9781611457971
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