The Little Virtues

1000-by-k 2019-releases black-author cressida-cowell default food got-book-s little maturita milton-academy-grade-3 muchamore muti nocturnal own-it picture-book set_1800s spalding-4th william-books writer-american ya

More books from Natalia Ginzburg

Read the most by: boys and girls

“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

ISBN10: 1611457971	ISBN13: 9781611457971
Format: Paperback	Pages: 184
Publisher: Arcade	GoodReads Rating: 4
Author: Natalia Ginzburg,

The Little Virtues

Read the most by: boys and girls

Crafted with ❤ by TheReadBetterCompany