The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg

The Little Virtues

Natalia Ginzburg with Dick Davis (Translator)

110 pages first pub 1962 (editions)

nonfiction essays reflective slow-paced

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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 in...

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