New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2017. Trade Paperback. In his final book before his death, Primo Levi returns once more to his time at Auschwitz in a moving meditation on memory, resiliency, and the struggle to comprehend unimaginable tragedy. Drawing on history, philosophy, and his own personal experiences..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2000. `. Trade Paperback. In the final days of World War II, a courageous band of Jewish partisans makes its way from Russia to Italy, moving toward the ultimate goal of Palestine. Based on a true story, If Not Now, When? chronicles their adventures as they wage..... More
London: Abacus, 2013. Stuart Woolf (tr.). Reprint. Paperback. With an introduction by Howard Jacobson and afterword by Paul Bailey. With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think..... More
New York: Schocken Books, 1995. Oliver Munday (cover design). Reprint. Paperback. Translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal. The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew... More
London: Penguin Books, 2008. Trade Paperback. Part of the Unpublished Stories Series, Penguin Modern Classics. Translated by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli 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..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2002. Jane Joseph (etchings). First Printing. Hardcover. With an introduction by David Mendel. Contains the translation by Stuart Woolf circa The Bodley Head, 1965. With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically..... More
London: Verso, 2015. Judith Woolf (tr.), Robert S.C. Gordon (ed.). First Verso Paperback Edition. Paperback. While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was then forgotten, and has until..... More
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