Bread and Wine by Barry Menikoff, Irving Howe, Ignazio Silone

304 pages first pub 1937 (editions)

fiction classics challenging reflective slow-paced

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One of the 20th century's essential novels depicting Fascism's rise in Italy. Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro Spin...

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informative 100%
reflective 100%

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