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* The Secret of Santa Vittoria ↠ PDF Download by ^ Robert Crichton eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. The Secret of Santa Vittoria A Great (lost?) Treasure S. D. Lord I simply echo the others - read this book - it is wonderful.It's full of the drama and comedy of life, like a fine play. Yes - the characters can be seen as stereotypes, but more often they evolve into a rich complexity, as their lives and ideals clash. Their close community and common dangers propel them through a suspensefull and wryly narrated struggle. Like Steinbeck, Crichton crafts the events of a time to work changes on people and force out their best,
| Title | : | The Secret of Santa Vittoria |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.61 (884 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0671642758 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 357 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
His novel The Secret of Santa Vittoria was on the New York Times bestseller list for over fifty weeks, became an international bestseller, and was adapted into a Golden Globe winning film of the same name in 1969. After the war he attended Harvard University on the GI Bill. His bestseller, The Great Imposter, was adapted into a successful film. ROBERT CRICHTON (1925-1993) an American novelist, served in the infantry during World War II and was wound
For this cause, the citizens, led by their wine-loving mayor Bombolini, scheme and plot to prevent the Germans from locating and looting the town's only treasure. Read by Christopher Hurt Remote from the rest of war-torn Italy, the little town of Santa Vittoria has but one thing to boast of: its fabulous wine cellars. A bestseller and the inspiration for the famous film starring Anthony Quinn, this warm, rich novel has already drawn thousands upon thousands into the exuberant and perilous life of Santa Vittoria, the little Italian town that stands alone against the German army to affirm, for all time and all people, the fundamental dignity of man.
A Great (lost?) Treasure S. D. Lord I simply echo the others - read this book - it is wonderful.It's full of the drama and comedy of life, like a fine play. Yes - the characters can be seen as stereotypes, but more often they evolve into a rich complexity, as their lives and ideals clash. Their close community and common dangers propel them through a suspensefull and wryly narrated struggle. Like Steinbeck, Crichton crafts the events of a time to work changes on people and force out their best, and so the tale inspires. I read it years ago, and reread it, and then gave it awa. Efincher said Santa Vittoria: Illusion and Irony. Deep within the Roman Cave there is the wall. It is all that separates the Germans from the wine that they covet. Yet they cannot see it, because the wall is an illusion, an illusion that protects the wine. The wall, as an illusion, is symbolicof the real secret of Santa Vittoria. Nothing and no one are what they seem to be. There is Bombolini, the clown, who is a student of Machiavelli and the only one capable of leading his people in this time of crisis. There is Babbaluche, the cynic, who is willing to give his life for his village, beca. The Secret of Santa Vittoria A Customer I bought this book on a pavement in Bombay and have read it a dozen times since. Santa Vittoria, a small hill town in Italy, struggles to hide their most precious possession from the occupying Germans, a million bottles of fat black wine. Consequently, in the struggle between the methodical, self procalimed 'superior-raced' Germans and the uncouth, seemingly naive but clever Italians, the latter manage to hide the wine and keep it too. The Nazi captain Von Prum tries to find the hidden wine till the last day of his departure from the little
Likewise, Hurt's reading is better during the narrative portions; the accents he bestows upon the characters make them more caricatured. The story holds up better than most popular fiction because of its balance between sentimentality and darker elements and especially through the attention to detail about daily life in Santa Vittoria. It was hugely popular because of its blend of adventure, romance, and comedy flavored with nostalgia for the war. From Library Journal Crichton's 1966 novel, narrated here by Christopher Hurt, depicts the efforts of an Italian mountain village to protect its hoard of wine from German soldiers near the end of World War II. Even though the characters rarely rise above caricature and the young lovers are tiresome, Crichton's village is vividly credible. A minor but pleasant diversion for popular fiction collections.?Michael Adams, CUNY Graduate Ctr.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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