Bread and Wine (Signet Classics)

Bread and Wine (Signet Classics)

When it first appeared in 1936, Bread and Wine stunned the world with its exposure of Italyâ‚¬s fascist state, depicting that regimeâ‚¬s use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of Pietro Spina, who returns from fifteen years of exile to organize the peasants of his native Abruzzi into a revolutionary movement, this courageous work bears witness to the truth about any totalitarian regimeâ‚¬"a warning as relevant today as it was in Mussoliniâ‚¬s Italy.
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Surprisingly tender and rich in humor, this twentieth-century masterpiece brings to life priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, simple girls and desperate women in a vivid drama of one manâ‚¬s struggle for goodness in a world on the brink of war. Ranked with Orwell and Camus among writers who insisted upon linking the hope for social change with the values of political liberty, Silone is one of the major voices of our time, and Bread and Wine is his greatest novel. As Irving Howe notes in his Introduction, â‚¬Å“Bread and Wine will speak to anyone, of whatever age, who tries sincerely to reflect upon manâ‚¬s fate in our century.â‚¬ÂÂ
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Translated by Eric Mosbacher, with an Introduction by Irving Howe and an Afterword by Barry Menikoff
Country USA
Brand Signet
Manufacturer Signet
Binding Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780451529787
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2005-06-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780451529787

Country	USA
Brand	Signet
Manufacturer	Signet
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780451529787
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2005-06-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780451529787

Bread and Wine (Signet Classics)

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