PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Reviews ‘Written with such warmth and simplicity, so concerned with the trivialities of everyday life and giving us so shrewd a glimpse into the minds of the people . . .’ London Evening News 'Inimitable, delicious, full of pure fun' --The Observer 'Charming and enchanting . . . Witty and wise' --Edinburgh Evening News 'You'll find Don Camillo not just enchanting and lovable, and at times hilariously funny, but also strangely moving in his simple but certain faith.' --BBC Radio Books by the Fire Book Description Reading ‘The Little World of Don Camillo’ is to travel to the Valley of the River Po, Italy’s widest and most fertile plain, with its unique atmosphere, culture and natural history. And to do so in the incomparable company of a cast of fictional characters who testify to the exquisite humour and humanity of their creator. In the Little World, eternal forces grapple with the absurd drama of everyday life, and hilarious and unearthly things can happen. If you keep this in mind you will have no difficulty in getting to know the village priest, Don Camillo, 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 intercedes . . . In story after story, the hot-headed Catholic priest, Don Camillo, and the equally pugnacious Communist mayor, Peppone, confront one another, sometimes in a serious and violent manner. The clever bit is the way Guareschi engineers a resolution to the conflict and transforms the situation to the great benefit of the local community, so that the two men put their political convictions aside and, however begrudgingly, develop respect for one another. To enable this, the author creates a third main character, his finest creation and the most surprising. Il Cristo presides over proceedings from above the altar of the town church and counsels Don Camillo, exposing and undermining the stubborn priest’s personal politics and prejudices and, with fascinating insights and gentle humour, suggests paths of action which, with the benefit of hindsight, we come to see make things right. Guareschi claimed that the voice from above the altar was simply the voice of his own conscience, but in the stories it is a living reality which enables solutions so simple that they are beyond the reach of political minds clouded with ideology and the need to win. Guareschi’s message is that what works at the level of the Little World can be made to work universally, the world over. More than fifty years on, these enchanting, wise and strangely moving stories of life in the Lower Plain continue to enthral millions of readers of all ages around the world. They have been feted not only in books but in films, in series on TV, on radio and most recently on YouTube. In this newly translated volume, many are available in English for the very first time. About the Author Giovannino Guareschi, known as Giovanni to his millions of English language readers, was born at Fontanelle in the Valley of the Po on the 1st of May, 1908. His father wanted him to become a naval engineer. He, for the very enjoyment of going the opposite way, determined to become a lawyer, but found his vocation when he sent some cartoons he had drawn to the satirical magazine, 'Bartoldo'. Later he founded the satirical magazine, 'Candido', and wrote 346 stories featuring Don Camillo, a character who has done for Italy what Cervantes Don Quixote did for Spain. About the Translator Adam Elgar, the translator of this the first new English translation of Don Camillo since 1952, is a young poet and award-winning translator with a profound empathy with the spirit of Italy.

Little World of Don Camillo

Literature & Fiction

Giovanni Guareschi

Contemporary

Penguin

My Home, Sweet Home

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

The Little World of Don Camillo

Disaster threatens when a mild-mannered Italian priest wages a personal war against the village communists

The Little World Of Don Camillo

World Literature

Image/ Doubleday

He was a journalist, writer, humorist. Along with Giovanni Mosca and Giaci Mondaini he founded the humorous magazine "Candido". He was well know because of the "Don Camillo" series based on the stories about the two main characters: Don Camillo, the priest and Peppone, the communist Mayor.

Don Camillo's Dilemma

Farrar, Straus & Young

Pocket

The Don Camillo Omnibus

Benediction Books

Reading ‘The Little World of Don Camillo’ is to travel to the Valley of the River Po, Italy’s widest and most fertile plain, with its unique atmosphere, culture and natural history. And to do so in the incomparable company of a cast of fictional characters who testify to the exquisite humour and humanity of their creator. In the Little World, eternal forces grapple with the absurd drama of everyday life, and hilarious and unearthly things can happen. If you keep this in mind you will have no difficulty in getting to know the village priest, Don Camillo, 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 intercedes . . . In story after story, the hot-headed Catholic priest, Don Camillo, and the equally pugnacious Communist mayor, Peppone, confront one another, sometimes in a serious and violent manner. The clever bit is the way Guareschi engineers a resolution to the conflict and transforms the situation to the great benefit of the local community, so that the two men put their political convictions aside and, however begrudgingly, develop respect for one another. To enable this, the author creates a third main character, his finest creation and the most surprising. Il Cristo presides over proceedings from above the altar of the town church and counsels Don Camillo, exposing and undermining the stubborn priest’s personal politics and prejudices and, with fascinating insights and gentle humour, suggests paths of action which, with the benefit of hindsight, we come to see make things right. Guareschi claimed that the voice from above the altar was simply the voice of his own conscience, but in the stories it is a living reality which enables solutions so simple that they are beyond the reach of political minds clouded with ideology and the need to win. Guareschi’s message is that what works at the level of the Little World can be made to work universally, the world over. More than fifty years on, these enchanting, wise and strangely moving stories of life in the Lower Plain continue to enthral millions of readers of all ages around the world. They have been feted not only in books but in films, in series on TV, on radio and most recently on YouTube. In this newly translated volume, many are available in English for the very first time. ‘Written with such warmth and simplicity, so concerned with the trivialities of everyday life and giving us so shrewd a glimpse into the minds of the people . . .’ London Evening News 'Inimitable, delicious, full of pure fun' --The Observer 'Charming and enchanting . . . Witty and wise' --Edinburgh Evening News 'You'll find Don Camillo not just enchanting and lovable, and at times hilariously funny, but also strangely moving in his simple but certain faith.' --BBC Radio Books by the Fire

The Complete Little World of Don Camillo (Don Camillo Series)

Humor & Satire

Pilot Productions

Mondo piccolo: Don Camillo

Rizzoli

Dust jacket notes: "Don Camillo Meets the Flower Children is the story of a clash between young and old, change and tradition, skeptics and believers. First, in a gesture of unmitigated perversity, the Vatican sends Don Camillo a young priest, ostensibly to help out, but actually to make innovations (i.e., trouble) in his parish. Don Chichi, as the newcomer is nicknamed, determines to install the entirety of the recent Ecumenical Council's reforms in twenty-four hours. The effect of Don Chichi's efforts might be compared to the forced installation of an electronic computer in a family of Scottish handweavers. But Don Chichi is the least of Don Camillo's worries. His young niece Flora, whom he has not seen since infancy and who has blossomed into a flower child, appears on the rectory doorstep with a clutch of Italian Hell's Angels. Don Camillo needs all the help he can get from Divine Providence and from his own cleverness to save his church, his town, and his own job from the onslaught of Don Chichi, Flora, Flora's friends, and other insidious influences of the sixties. This last Don Camillo book is charming, heartwarming, and as memorable as sthe other five best-selling stories about the crafty country priest."

Don Camillo Meets the Flower Children

L.K. Conrad, translator

Farrar/Straus/Giroux, New York

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