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"History by Elsa Morante" is a Non-Fiction > History title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (2.6 MB). Written by Elsa Morante. The book spans approximately 776 pages with 248,264 words. History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events driven by men of power, wealth, and ambition - does when it reaches the realm of ordinary people struggling for life and bread. The central character in this powerful and unforgiving novel is Ida Mancuso, a schoolteacher whose husband has died and whose feckless teenage son treats the war a...

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CategoryBooks

LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreFiction, Literature, Historical Fiction

QualityEPUB

Size2.6 MB

Pages776

ArchivedOct 13, 2026

Synopsis

Originally published in Italy as La storia: Romanza by Giulo Einaudi editore, S.P.A. English] History : a novel / Elsa Morante; translated from the Italian by William Weaver. At first, the Fascists were very loose in the enforcement of discrimination. But when the Germans took over Rome in 1943, I learned a great lesson, I learned terror. But the Fascists were so illiterate that they did not know, and then Jewishness to them was a race, a breed; they explained it through the barbaric, regressive