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The periodic table

by Primo Levi, Raymond Rosenthal

Organised into twenty-one chapters named after chemical elements, this work blends memoir and fiction. It draws on experiences as a chemist and a prisoner in Auschwitz to analyse the human condition through a scientific framework.

Accession 19795 ISBN 0805208119 Publisher Schocken
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