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The Periodic Table (Italian: Il sistema periodico) is a 1975 short story collection by Primo Levi, named after the periodic table in chemistry. In 2006, the Royal Institution of Great Britain named it the best science book ever .
Primo Michele Levi [1] [2] (Italian: [ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi]; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was a Jewish-Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Holocaust survivor.He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel.
On 19 October 2006, the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the 1975 short story collection The Periodic Table, by Primo Levi, the best science book ever.After taking nominations from many scientists in various disciplines, authors, and other notable people (such as the Archbishop of Canterbury), the Royal Institution compiled a shortlist of books for consideration.
The Wrench, published in the U.S. under the title of The Monkey's Wrench, is a novel by Primo Levi that takes the form a collection of interconnected stories exchanged between the two main characters. [1] It is similar in form to his collection of connected memoir stories, The Periodic Table.
If Not Now, When? won the Campiello and Viareggio prizes the year of its publication. The critic Adam Kirsch rates Levi's Holocaust writing including If Not Now, When? as his primary literary contribution, but doesn't see the book as one of Levi's classics, like If This Is a Man, The Drowned and the Saved and The Periodic Table.
The periodic table is a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements. Periodic table may also refer to: The Periodic Table (short story collection), by Primo Levi, 1975; The Periodic Table (Basher book), a 2007 children's science book; Periodic table (crystal structure), a variant of the periodic table of chemical elements
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Pages in category "Short story collections by Primo Levi" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .