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History

A Novel

History( )
Author: Morante, Elsa
Translator: Weaver, William
Foreword by: Tuck, Lily
ISBN:978-1-58642-004-8
Publication Date:Feb 2000
Publisher:Steerforth Press
Imprint:Steerforth
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $30.00
Book Description:

History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events driven by men of power, wealth, and ambition - does when it reaches the realm of ordinary people struggling for life and bread.

Book Details
Pages:608
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Historical / 20Th Century / World War Ii & Holocaust
Fiction / Historical / Ancient
Fiction / Literary
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.51 x 8.49 x 1.56 Inches
Book Weight:1.932 Pounds
Author Biography
Morante, Elsa (Author)
Prolific and highly successful, Elsa Morante distinguished herself as a novelist, short story writer, and poet. The Marxist critic Gyorgy Lukacs hailed Morante's early House of the Liars (1948) as "the greatest modern Italian novel," but it was Arthur's Island (1957) that brought her international fame and an independent income. Her great financial triumph was, however, History (1974), which was the first Italian novel to be marketed with high-pressure promotional advertising, making use of publisher, mass media, and political party resources to push sales up to 600,000 copies in less than six months. Morante married Alberto Moravia in 1941, and they separated in 1962.

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