Italy

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of A Farewell to Arms cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I."

Government / national · 1929 · lifted

Agostino

Alberto Moravia

Government / national · 1944 · lifted

Ars Amatoria

Ovid

Government / national · 8 · lifted

Being and Nothingness

Jean-Paul Sartre

Government / national · 1959 · lifted

Christ Stopped at Eboli

Carlo Levi

Government / national · 1945 · lifted

Conversations in Sicily

Elio Vittorini

Government / national · 1941 · lifted

Fontamara

Ignazio Silone

Government / national · 1933 · lifted

Ragazzi di vita

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Government / national · 1955 · lifted

The Moon and the Bonfires

Cesare Pavese

Government / national · 1950 · lifted

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

**The Second Sex** (French: *Le Deuxième Sexe*) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women throughout history. Beauvoir researched and wrote the book in about 14 months between 1946 and 1949. She published the work in two volumes: *Facts and Myths* (*Les faits et les mythes*), and *Lived Experience* (*L’expérience vécue*). Some chapters first appeared in the journal *Les Temps modernes*. One of Beauvoir’s best-

Government / national · 1956 · lifted

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Government / national · 1775 · lifted