Author(s): Primo Levi

Classic Fiction

Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins Series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books. Primo Levi achieved worldwide fame with his first book, If This is a Man, an objective account of his struggle for survival following imprisonment in Auschwitz in 1943. Taken from his great work The Periodic Table, the three stories in this volume describe Levi's training as a chemist in wartime Turin against a backdrop of growing anti-Semitism.