Little Virtues

Name: Little Virtues
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ISBN: 9781611457971

ISBN-10: 1611457971

ISBN-13: 9781611457971

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Authors: Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis, Belle Boggs

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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…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 5.50" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is today recognized as one of the foremost woman writers to emerge from twentieth-century Italy.