{"product_id":"bread-and-wine-paperback","title":"Bread and Wine - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIgnazio Silone\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eIrving Howe\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eBarry Menikoff\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen it first appeared in 1936, \u003ci\u003eBread and Wine\u003c\/i\u003e stunned the world with its exposure of Italy's fascist state, depicting that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of Pietro Spina, who returns from fifteen years of exile to organize the peasants of his native Abruzzi into a revolutionary movement, this courageous work bears witness to the truth about any totalitarian regime--a warning as relevant today as it was in Mussolini's Italy. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Surprisingly tender and rich in humor, this twentieth-century masterpiece brings to life priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, simple girls and desperate women in a vivid drama of one man's struggle for goodness in a world on the brink of war. Ranked with Orwell and Camus among writers who insisted upon linking the hope for social change with the values of political liberty, Silone is one of the major voices of our time, and \u003ci\u003eBread and Wine\u003c\/i\u003e is his greatest novel. As Irving Howe notes in his Introduction, \"\u003ci\u003eBread and Wine\u003c\/i\u003e will speak to anyone, of whatever age, who tries sincerely to reflect upon man's fate in our century.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eTranslated by Eric Mosbacher, with an Introduction by Irving Howe and an Afterword by Barry Menikoff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIgnazio Silone\u003c\/b\u003e was the pseudonym of the Italian author Secondo Tranquilli. A founding member of the Communist Party of Italy, he later declared his opposition to Stalinism and was expelled from the organization. Much of his creative output after World War II was written in opposition to Communism, and in 1969 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for his writing on individual freedom and society. By the time of his death in 1978, he had been nominated for the Nobel prize for literature 10 times. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrving Howe\u003c\/b\u003e (1920-1993) was distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City of New York and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDissent \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. His many publications include \u003ci\u003eThomas Hardy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolitics and the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCulture and Politics in the Age of Emerson\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Socialism and America\u003c\/i\u003e. His \u003ci\u003eSelected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1990. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarry Menikoff\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English and American literature at the University of Hawaii. He has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and he is the author of \u003ci\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson and \"The Beach of Falesá.\" \u003c\/i\u003eHe has lectured and taught abroad, and he has been a visiting professor at the University of Southern California, Georgetown University, and the University of Victoria (British Columbia).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 7 x 4.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227712962809,"sku":"9780451529787","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/D7fF7kDEyZ9780451529787.webp?v=1768285357","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/bread-and-wine-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}