History

Author: Elsa Morante
Edition: 2nd
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1586420046

History: A Novel

History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. Get History literature books for free.
There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events driven by men of power, wealth, and ambition - does when it reaches the realm of ordinary people struggling for life and bread.

The central character in this powerful and unforgiving novel is Ida Mancuso, a schoolteacher whose husband has died and whose feckless teenage son treats the war as his playground. A German soldier on his way to North Africa rapes her, falls in love with her, and leaves her pregnant with a boy Check History our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events driven by men of power, wealth, and ambition - does when it reaches the realm of ordinary people struggling for life and bread A German soldier on his way to North Africa rapes her, falls in love with her, and leaves her pregnant with a boy

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