CONTENTS

1) The Non- Camillo Books (Introduction)

2) Early Family Stories

3) Later Family Stories

4) Drawing Room Farces

5) Notes from Prison Camp

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Many of those familiar with Giovanni Guareschi's "Little World of Don Camillo" are unaware that among the Italian humorist's other translated writings are several books set in other "little worlds." For instance, there's Guareschi's world of home and hearth, represented in English by three books of comic stories about the author's family. And there's also the world of Continental high society, or GG's stylized version thereof, which readers in English can visit via two charming farces dating from the beginning of the author's career. Finally, there is the dark world of the German internment camp where Guareschi spent several years during the Second World War; his collected prison writings round out the works available in English.

I say "available," but in fact all of the English versions alluded to above are, like those of the Don Camillo books, out of print. Ideally, I'd be offering you e-texts of the lot of them, right here, but those take time to produce, and I'm not ready yet. However, I do have several chapters available from each title. Just click on the links below (or in the Contents bar at left) to get a taste of the ones that interest you. Then, if something really appeals, I recommend visiting the Advanced Book Exchange, my favorite online source of secondhand books, to look for a copy.

• early family stories--
  The House That Nino Built * My Home, Sweet Home

• later family stories--
  The Family Guareschi

• drawing room farces--
  Duncan and Clotilda * A Husband in Boarding School

• notes from prison camp--
  My Secret Diary