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Lies and sorcery
- Title
- Lies and sorcery / Elsa Morante ; translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee.
- Author
- Morante, Elsa, 1912-1985
- Publication
- New York, NY : New York Review Books, [2023]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 24-125 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McPhee, Jenny
- Description
- xiv, 775 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Though written at the end of the first half of the twentieth century this is essentially a nineteenth century novel written with a twentieth century sensibility. A few things give it away as a twentieth century novel - regular trains, even to remote rural areas, and a gramophone as well as the fact that, unlike most nineteenth century novels, none of the main characters survives unscarred. Indeed, most of them die, usually relatively unpleasant deaths. The other unusual feature is that there is no reference whatsoever to political events in the country. Napoleon is mentioned in passing but that is it"--
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- Menzogna e sortilegio. English
- New York Review Books classics.
- Alternative Title
- Menzogna e sortilegio.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Note
- First published in Italian as "Menzogna e sortilegio" in 1948.
- Call Number
- JFD 24-125
- ISBN
- 9781681376844
- 1681376849
- 9781681376851 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022010871
- OCLC
- 1309891321
- Author
- Morante, Elsa, 1912-1985, author.
- Title
- Lies and sorcery / Elsa Morante ; translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : New York Review Books, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books classicsNew York Review Books classics.
- Added Author
- McPhee, Jenny, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Morante, Elsa, 1912-1985 Lies and sorcery New York City : New York Review Books, [2022] 9781681376851 (DLC) 2022010872
- Research Call Number
- JFD 24-125