The Little Virtues [Audiobook] download free by Natalia Ginzburg
- Listen audiobook: The Little Virtues
- Author: Natalia Ginzburg
- Release date: 2013/3/6
- Publisher: SKYHORSE PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781611457971
- Rating: 7.85 of 10
- Votes: 191
- Review by: Dayton Wilks
- Review rating: 8.55 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/2
- Duration: 1H22M43S in 256 kbps (22 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-26
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: OGG, MP3, MPEG4, MP4, WMA, WAV, FLAC (compression RAR, Z, GZ, ZIP, TAR.Z, IMG)
- Total pages original book: 110
- Includes a PDF summary of 9 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 6M52S (1.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: '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
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Essays, Biography: Literary
- Download servers: MEGA, Torrents.me, Firedrop, 4Shared, Dropbox, Google Drive, FreakShare, ADrive, Torrent. Compressed in RAR, Z, GZ, ZIP, TAR.Z, IMG
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 12.85 USD
- Dimensions: 140x206x13mm
- Weight: 136g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, NY, United States
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