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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"

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: literary

• Full title: Little Virtues
• Author: Natalia Ginzburg
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110
• EAN: 9781611457971
• ISBN: 1611457971
• ID: 09243149
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Weight: 136 g
• Dimensions: 206 × 140 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. September 2013

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