The World Of Don Camillo
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Step into the sun-drenched Po Valley of postwar Italy, where a hot-tempered Catholic priest and a Communist mayor wage a gloriously absurd battle of wills that somehow keeps an entire village intact. The World of Don Camillo is a landmark omnibus collecting five of Giovanni Guareschi's beloved chronicles — The Little World of Don Camillo, Don Camillo and the Prodigal Son, Don Camillo's Dilemma, Don Camillo and the Devil, and Comrade Don Camillo — each instalment deepening the richly comic mythology of Guareschi's fictional Italian village, where ideology and faith collide with irreverent, warmhearted results. Guareschi's genius lies in his deceptively light touch: beneath the slapstick confrontations between Don Camillo and the indefatigable Mayor Peppone runs a deep current of humanism, forgiveness, and the absurdity of political dogma. His prose, brisk and sardonic, draws on the tradition of Italian satirical writing while achieving a universality that made these stories beloved across Europe and beyond. First published in postwar Italy, the series stands as both a product of its turbulent era and a timeless meditation on community, conviction, and the very human need to argue — and ultimately reconcile. Whether you are a returning devotee or a first-time visitor to Guareschi's little world, this collected edition promises to leave you wondering who, in the end, truly has the last word: the priest, the mayor, or the Christ who speaks quietly from the altar.
Author: Giovanni Guareschi
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, Victor Gollancz Ltd
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Step into the sun-drenched Po Valley of postwar Italy, where a hot-tempered Catholic priest and a Communist mayor wage a gloriously absurd battle of wills that somehow keeps an entire village intact. The World of Don Camillo is a landmark omnibus collecting five of Giovanni Guareschi's beloved chronicles — The Little World of Don Camillo, Don Camillo and the Prodigal Son, Don Camillo's Dilemma, Don Camillo and the Devil, and Comrade Don Camillo — each instalment deepening the richly comic mythology of Guareschi's fictional Italian village, where ideology and faith collide with irreverent, warmhearted results. Guareschi's genius lies in his deceptively light touch: beneath the slapstick confrontations between Don Camillo and the indefatigable Mayor Peppone runs a deep current of humanism, forgiveness, and the absurdity of political dogma. His prose, brisk and sardonic, draws on the tradition of Italian satirical writing while achieving a universality that made these stories beloved across Europe and beyond. First published in postwar Italy, the series stands as both a product of its turbulent era and a timeless meditation on community, conviction, and the very human need to argue — and ultimately reconcile. Whether you are a returning devotee or a first-time visitor to Guareschi's little world, this collected edition promises to leave you wondering who, in the end, truly has the last word: the priest, the mayor, or the Christ who speaks quietly from the altar.