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As everyone knows, taking a serpent by the tail is not a good idea.
But in the Little World of Don Camillo, where the Devil crops up in
many a guise to break the quiet rhythm of everyday life (and even
the village priest falls foul of him), hilarious and unearthly
things can happen to draw the poison from his bite... No. 7 in the
Don Camillo Series, this bumper volume of classic Tales from the
Lower Plain includes many never before translated into English.
Beloved of 23 million readers worldwide, their appeal is universal,
to readers aged from 10 to 100.'Inimitable, delicious, full of pure
fun.' The Observer 'Giovanni Guareschi's tales of Don Camillo, the
Italian priest with a hefty left hook, are absolutely delightful in
their satirical swipes at human weakness.' Paul Merton
In Don Camillo's Little World, where eternal forces grapple with
the absurd drama of everyday life, hilarious and unearthly things
can happen. If you keep this in mind you will have no difficulty in
getting to know the village priest and his adversary, Peppone, the
communist mayor. Nor will you be surprised when a third person
watches the goings-on from a big cross in the village church and
not infrequently intervenes... These enchanting, wise and strangely
moving tales of life in Italy's Emilia-Romagna continue to enthral
millions of readers of all ages around the world. In this newly
translated volume, many are available in English for the very first
time.
Set against the post-war backdrop of a village in the
Emilia-Romagna, this is the second of the newly translated Don
Camillo series with sales of more than 23 million copies worldwide.
As ever, the townsfolk, divided by their respective allegiances to
the hot-headed Catholic priest and his equally pugnacious adversary
Peppone, the communist mayor, are relieved of their prejudices by
the gentle humour and insights emanating form the crucifix high
above the altar of the village church...
A gang of Hells Angels rips through the village bringing mayhem and
a generational shift to traditional enmities between Don Camillo
and Peppone. The year is 1966, a time ripe for rebellion, for
overturning conventions - a time, above all, to be young.
Meanwhile, beset by the third young progressive leftwing priest
with a mandate to steer him into the modern world, Don Camillo digs
in and finds a surprise ally in Peppone as he fights to save the
three-metre high figure of il Cristo through which he conducts his
famous conversations with God. ; 'Guareschi's was one of the most
prescient and perceptive voices of the twentieth century.' Tobias
Jones, author of The Dark Heart of Italy. ; 'Guareschi's tales are
absolutely delightful in their satirical swipes at human weakness.'
Paul Merton
This, the fifth volume in the Don Camillo series, is the first
wholly new anthology to be translated into English for over forty
years. Against the background of the rise and fall of fascism and
post-war communism in rural Italy, Giovanni Guareschi looks down
with hawk's-eye vision into the lives of ordinary people and
delivers his message, as relevant today as ever, to allay prejudice
and political correctness and follow one's conscience, which is of
course the voice which speaks to Don Camillo with humour and
penetrating insight from the cross above the altar in the village
church.
In the sixth book in the Don Camillo series all is peaceful in the
village we know so well. The people are cheerful and friendly and
exercise their famous sense of humour, but then the elections are
upon us, a storm breaks, and the village priest discovers that the
last straw can break even a Camillo's back...
In No. 4 of the newly translated Don Camillo series, Peppone loses
out on a matter of conscience and must accept the presence of Don
Camillo among a group of communist activists on a trip he is
organising to Mother Russia. Travelling incognito, the battling
priest becomes the life and soul of the Party and picks off his
totalitarian comrades one-by-one in a hilarious riot of shrewd
manipulation.
The third in the Don Camillo series brings more timeless,
bittersweet stories of life in Italy's Lower Plain, many of them in
English for the first time. It begins as the second in the series
ended, with Don Camillo in exile in the mountains. But it isn't
long before this lightning conductor for human frailty draws
Peppone and all human nature to his door.
British title: Don Camillo Meets the Hells Angels
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