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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...LITTLE WORLD OF DON CAMILLO (205 pp.)-Giovanni Guareschi -Pellegrini & Cudahy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lord's Champ | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

Such impious bad taste mars these otherwise simple but forced folk tales, which have gone into seven editions in Italy. Author Guareschi is a magazine editor who spent much of the war in German concentration camps and has now been singled out as a class enemy by no less a figure than Italian Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti. Guareschi is a whole imagination away from the "Italian James Thurber" that his publishers hopefully label him, but The Little World is a dual Book-of-the-Month Club selection, which ought to please them just as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lord's Champ | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

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