For a Handful of Books
For a Handful of Books

For a Handful of Books

1998 23 Seasons 453 Episodes ⭐ 9.0 Talk

The Rai3 program that features two school classes comparing notes on a literary classic.

The Rai3 program that features two school classes comparing notes on a literary classic.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Puntata 1

Italian book game

EP 2

Puntata 2

EP 3

Puntata 3

EP 4

Puntata 4

EP 5

Puntata 5

EP 6

Puntata 6

EP 7

Puntata 7

EP 8

Puntata 8

EP 1

Who Killed the Book?

EP 2

Episode 2

EP 3

Episode 3

EP 4

Episode 4

EP 5

Do Books Keep You Afloat?

EP 6

Is Culture a Quiz?

EP 7

Reindeer or Christmas Presents

EP 8

The Little Girl Comes from the Countryside

EP 9

The Book Was the Go-Between...

EP 10

Episode 10

EP 11

Episode 11

EP 12

Cinema and Stardom

EP 13

Episode 13

EP 1

Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

EP 2

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

EP 3

Animal Farm - George Orwell

EP 4

The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

EP 5

The Baron in the Trees - Italo Calvino

EP 6

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

EP 7

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

EP 8

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Father

EP 9

The Catcher in the Rye - Jerome David Salinger

EP 10

The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang Goethe

EP 11

Siddharta - Hermann Hesse

EP 12

Johnny the Partisan - Beppe Fenoglio

EP 13

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

EP 14

Episode 14

EP 15

Episode 15

EP 16

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

EP 17

Zeno's Conscience - Italo Svevo

EP 18

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

EP 19

Candide - Voltaire

EP 20

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

EP 21

Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi

EP 22

The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

EP 23

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

EP 24

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

EP 25

The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni

EP 1

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

EP 2

1984 - George Orwell

EP 3

The Desert of the Tartars - Dino Buzzati

EP 4

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

EP 5

To Each His Own - Leonardo Sciascia

EP 6

The Count of Montecristo - Alexandre Dumas Father

EP 7

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

EP 8

Heart - Edmondo De Amicis

EP 9

The Tempest - William Shakespeare

EP 10

The Trial - Franz Kafka

EP 11

Christmas at the Cupiello House - Eduardo De Filippo

EP 12

The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky

EP 13

The Black Corsair - Emilio Salgari

EP 14

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

EP 15

Family Lexicon - Natalia Ginzburg

EP 16

Tale of a Castaway - Gabriel García Márquez

EP 17

Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang Goethe

EP 18

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

EP 19

The Late Mattia Pascal - Luigi Pirandello

EP 20

The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

EP 21

The Indifferent - Alberto Moravia

EP 22

Kim - Rudyard Kipling

EP 23

Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy

EP 24

A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

EP 25

Heart of a Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov

EP 26

Martin Eden - Jack London

EP 27

Arturo's Island - Elsa Morante

EP 28

Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

EP 29

Episode 29

EP 30

Inferno (Divine Comedy) - Dante Alighieri

EP 1

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani

EP 2

Bel ami - Guy de Maupassant

EP 3

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands - Jorge Amado

EP 4

Our Agent in Havana - Graham Greene

EP 5

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

EP 6

The Nonexistent Knight - Italo Calvino

EP 7

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

EP 8

Royal Highness - Thomas Mann

EP 9

Benito Cereno - Herman Melville

EP 10

Todo modo - Leonardo Sciascia

EP 11

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

EP 12

White Fang - Jack London

EP 13

The Conformist - Alberto Moravia

EP 14

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling

EP 15

The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal

EP 16

Ten Little Indians - Agatha Christie

EP 17

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

EP 18

Do Androids Dream of Androids? - Philip K. Dick

EP 19

Metello - Vasco Pratolini

EP 20

Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos

EP 21

Story of Arthur Gordon Pym - Edgar Allan Poe

EP 22

The Capuchin Crypt - Joseph Roth

EP 23

The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien

EP 24

The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler

EP 25

The Troubles of Young Törless - Robert Musil

EP 26

The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese

EP 27

The Stranger - Albert Camus

EP 28

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

EP 29

The Red and the Black - Stendhal

EP 30

Anna Karenina - Lev Tolstoj

EP 1

That Ugly Mess on Via Merulana - Carlo Emilio Gadda

EP 2

Lady Chatterley's Lover - David Herbert Lawrence

EP 3

The Duellists - Joseph Conrad

EP 4

Men and Not - Elio Vittorini

EP 5

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

EP 6

Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

EP 7

The Cloven Viscount - Italo Calvino

EP 8

Father Goriot - Honoré de Balzac

EP 9

General Della Rovere - Indro Montanelli

EP 10

Macbeth - William Shakespeare

EP 11

Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse

EP 12

The Great Gatsby - Francis Scott Fitzgerald

EP 13

Gian Burrasca's Journal - Vamba

EP 14

The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle

EP 15

Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis - Ugo Foscolo

EP 16

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

EP 17

The Legend of the Holy Drinker - Joseph Roth

EP 18

The Truce - Primo Levi

EP 19

The Call of the Wild - Jack London

EP 20

The Double - Fyodor Dostoevsky

EP 21

Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville

EP 22

The Judge and His Executioner - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

EP 23

The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson

EP 24

The Sunday Woman - Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini

EP 25

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By - Georges Simenon

EP 26

The Day of the Owl - Leonardo Sciascia

EP 27

Iliad - Homer

EP 1

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

EP 2

Saturday's Pay - Beppe Fenoglio

EP 3

Gargantua and Pantagruel - François Rabelais

EP 4

The Council of Egypt - Leonardo Sciascia

EP 5

Auto da fé - Elias Canetti

EP 6

Boatswain - Joseph Conrad

EP 7

The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky

EP 8

Assassination at the Central Committee - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

EP 9

The Walk - Robert Walser

EP 10

The Special Correspondent - Evelyn Waugh

EP 11

The Beautiful Summer - Cesare Pavese

EP 12

Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne

EP 13

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

EP 14

One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello

EP 15

The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon - William Makepeace Thackeray

EP 16

The Friend Found - Fred Uhlman

EP 17

The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov

EP 18

Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar

EP 19

Born Twice - Giuseppe Pontiggia

EP 20

Ask the Dust - John Fante

EP 21

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

EP 22

Memoirs of a Good Girl - Simone de Beauvoir

EP 23

Oblomov - Ivan Gončarov

EP 24

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family - Thomas Mann

EP 25

Zazie in the Metro - Raymond Queneau

EP 26

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

EP 27

The Handsome Priest - Goffredo Parise

EP 28

Marcovaldo, or the Seasons in the City - Italo Calvino

EP 29

Poor Piero - Achille Campanile

EP 1

A Time to Kill - Ennio Flaiano

EP 2

The Government Inspector - Nikolai Gogol

EP 3

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

EP 4

The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad

EP 5

Senility - Italo Svevo

EP 6

Life Is Elsewhere - Milan Kundera

EP 7

The Dearly Deceased - Evelyn Waugh

EP 8

The Lady of the Camellias - Alexandre Dumas Son

EP 9

The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett

EP 10

A Private Matter - Beppe Fenoglio

EP 11

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

EP 12

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez

EP 13

The House by the Malavoglia - Giovanni Verga

EP 14

Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev

EP 15

Opinions of a Clown - Heinrich Böll

EP 16

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

EP 17

The Imaginary Invalid - Molière

EP 18

Room with a View - Edward Morgan Forster

EP 19

Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi

EP 20

The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth

EP 21

Aunt Julia and the Scribbler - Mario Vargas Llosa

EP 22

The Blue Flowers - Raymond Queneau

EP 23

Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome

EP 24

Peter Camenzind - Herman Hesse

EP 25

The Perelà Code - Aldo Palazzeschi

EP 26

Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

EP 27

The Captain's Daughter - Alexander Pushkin

EP 28

Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

EP 29

Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens

EP 1

The Path to the Spiders' Nests - Italo Calvino

EP 2

Emma - Jane Austen

EP 3

I, Robot - Isaac Asimov

EP 4

The Return of Casanova - Arthur Schnitzler

EP 5

The Farewell Waltz - Milan Kundera

EP 6

The Promise - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

EP 7

The Queen of Spades - Alexander Pushkin

EP 8

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote

EP 9

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

EP 10

August, My Wife, I Don't Know You - Achille Campanile

EP 11

Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez

EP 12

King Kong - Delos W. Lovelace

EP 13

Swann's Love - Marcel Proust

EP 14

The Bitter Life - Luciano Bianciardi

EP 15

Billy Budd - Herman Melville

EP 16

Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac

EP 17

There Was Baron Lamberto Twice - Gianni Rodari

EP 18

The Wild Palms - William Faulkner

EP 19

Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

EP 20

Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov

EP 21

Sad, lonely and final - Osvaldo Soriano

EP 22

Handsome Antonio - Vitaliano Brancati

EP 23

The Purple Cloud - Matthew Phipps Shiel

EP 24

The Castle - Franz Kafka

EP 25

Maigret Is Afraid - Georges Simenon

EP 26

Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare

EP 27

The Monkey Wrench - Primo Levi

EP 1

The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni / The Sins of Peyton Place - Grace Metalious

EP 2

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes / Candide - Voltaire

EP 3

Anna Karenina - Lev Tolstoj / Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

EP 4

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley / The Greatest Ape-Man of the Pleistocene - Roy Lewis

EP 5

Young Holden - J. D. Salinger / Siddharta - Herman Hesse

EP 6

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe / Lord of the Flies - William Golding

EP 7

Episode 7

EP 8

Episode 8

EP 9

Heart - Edmondo De Amicis / A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

EP 10

Episode 10

EP 11

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad / Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi

EP 12

Episode 12

EP 13

Episode 13

EP 14

Moby Dick - Herman Melville / Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad

EP 15

Episode 15

EP 16

Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos / Double Dream - Arthur Schnitzler

EP 17

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde / The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

EP 18

Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett / The Desert of the Tartars - Dino Buzzati

EP 19

Episode 19

EP 20

Episode 20

EP 21

Episode 21

EP 22

The Black Corsair - Emilio Salgari / Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

EP 23

Episode 23

EP 24

Episode 24

EP 25

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë / Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy

EP 26

The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler / That Ugly Mess on Via Merulana - Carlo Emilio Gadda

EP 27

1984 - George Orwell

EP 1

Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges

EP 2

The Viceroys - Federico De Roberto

EP 3

Letter to Berlin - Ian McEwan

EP 4

Tonio Kroger - Thomas Mann

EP 5

Bouvard et Pécuchet - Gustave Flaubert

EP 6

The Indifferent - Alberto Moravia

EP 7

Episode 7

EP 8

A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

EP 9

The Disappearance of Majorana - Leonardo Sciascia

EP 10

Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

EP 11

The Misanthrope - Molière

EP 12

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

EP 13

Port of Mists - Georges Simenon

EP 14

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

EP 15

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

EP 16

Lies of the Night - Gesualdo Bufalino

EP 17

The Lover - Marguerite Duras

EP 18

The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky

EP 19

The Telephone Grant - Andrea Camilleri

EP 20

Minority Report - Philip K. Dick

EP 21

Typhoon - Joseph Conrad

EP 22

The Sergeant in the Snow - Mario Rigoni Stern

EP 23

Episode 23

EP 24

Conversation in Sicily - Elio Vittorini

EP 25

A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle

EP 26

Episode 26

EP 27

Zeno's Conscience - Italo Svevo

EP 1

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

EP 2

The Preston Brewer - Andrea Camilleri

EP 3

Dubliners - James Joyce

EP 4

Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert

EP 5

The Aleph - Jorge Luis Borges

EP 6

Daisy Miller - Henry James

EP 7

A Day in the Life of a Scrutineer - Italo Calvino

EP 8

The Breakdown. A Story Still Possible - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

EP 9

Letter to My Judge - Georges Simenon

EP 10

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

EP 11

The Little Masters - Luigi Meneghello

EP 12

Martin Eden - Jack London

EP 13

The Skin of Shagreen - Honoré de Balzac

EP 14

Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare

EP 15

Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Operator - Luigi Pirandello

EP 16

Group Photo with Lady - Heinrich Böll

EP 17

The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe

EP 18

Open Doors - Leonardo Sciascia

EP 19

Nine Stories - Jerome Salinger

EP 20

Job. A Novel of a Simple Man - Joseph Roth

EP 21

The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel García Márquez

EP 22

Family Lexicon - Natalia Ginzburg

EP 23

A Passage to India - Edward Morgan Forster

EP 24

Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev

EP 25

The Conformist - Alberto Moravia

EP 1

The Story of the Infamous Column - Alessandro Manzoni

EP 2

Chéri - Colette

EP 3

Burning Secret - Stefan Zweig

EP 4

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

EP 5

Sisters Mattresses - Aldo Palazzeschi

EP 6

The Visit of the Old Lady - Friedrich Durrenmatt

EP 7

The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene

EP 8

The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy

EP 9

Jacques the Fatalist and His Master - Denis Diderot

EP 10

The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare

EP 11

A Simple Story - Leonardo Sciascia

EP 12

Miss Else - Arthur Schnitzler

EP 13

The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury

EP 14

The Plague - Albert Camus

EP 15

A Life - Italo Svevo

EP 16

Bestiary - Julio Cortázar

EP 17

The Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

EP 18

Life of Galileo - Bertolt Brecht

EP 19

Eve's Diary - Mark Twain

EP 20

Out of Africa - Karen Blixen

EP 21

The Parish Priest of Tours - Honoré de Balzac

EP 22

Misery - Stephen King

EP 23

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

EP 24

Gomorrah - Roberto Saviano

EP 1

The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

EP 2

The Black Opera - Marguerite Yourcenar

EP 3

The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare

EP 4

Chess Novel - Stefan Zweig

EP 5

Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino

EP 6

The Human Factor - Graham Greene

EP 7

Fútbol - Osvaldo Soriano

EP 8

White Nights - Fyodor Dostoevsky

EP 9

Enigma in Place of the Sea - Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini

EP 10

Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov

EP 11

Nobody Writes to the Colonel - Gabriel García Márquez

EP 12

Farewell, My Beloved - Raymond Chandler

EP 13

Suspicion - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

EP 14

If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi

EP 15

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

EP 16

Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler

EP 17

America or the Missing - Franz Kafka

EP 18

The City and the Dogs - Mario Vargas Llosa

EP 19

Don Giovanni - Molière

EP 20

A Love - Dino Buzzati

EP 21

Discourse on the Present State of Italian Customs - Giacomo Leopardi

EP 22

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

EP 23

Herzog - Saul Bellow

EP 24

The Red Carnation - Elio Vittorini

EP 1

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

EP 2

Mario and the Magician - Thomas Mann

EP 3

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani

EP 4

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

EP 5

Bel ami - Guy de Maupassant

EP 6

What Time Is It at Night - Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini

EP 7

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

EP 8

The Death of the Pythia - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

EP 9

The Eternal Husband - Fyodor Dostoevsky

EP 10

The Bishop's Room - Piero Chiara

EP 11

Endless Escape - Joseph Roth

EP 12

High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

EP 13

The Aspern Correspondence - Henry James

EP 14

The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith

EP 15

The Context - Leonardo Sciascia

EP 1

Arturo's Island - Elsa Morante

EP 2

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

EP 3

The Country Doctor - Honoré de Balzac

EP 4

The False Weight - Joseph Roth

EP 5

The Two Old Maids - Tommaso Landolfi

EP 6

Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

EP 7

Amok - Stefan Zweig

EP 8

Henry IV - Luigi Pirandello

EP 9

Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith

EP 10

Much love for Glenda - Julio Cortazar

EP 11

The Great Gatsby - Francis Scott Fitzgerald

EP 12

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

EP 13

A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen

EP 14

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

EP 1

Babette's Feast (by Karen Blixen)

In the first episode of the new season, the 5th A class of the scientific high school "S. Pertini" of Ladispoli and the

EP 2

A Very Small Bourgeois (by Vincenzo Cerami)

"Per un pugno di libri" pays homage to Vincenzo Cerami, the writer and screenwriter who recently passed away. The two cl

EP 3

Lady Chatterley's Lover (by David H. Lawrence)

At the center of the third episode of "Per un pugno di libri" is one of the most famous and controversial novels of the

EP 4

Shining (di Stephen King)

"The Shining" by Stephen King is the focus of the fourth episode of "A Fistful of Books". It is the most famous novel by

EP 5

The Periodic Table (by Primo Levi)

Thanks to "The Periodic Table" by Primo Levi, to "For a Fistful of Books", with Geppi Cucciari and Piero Dorfles, we pla

EP 6

Dogs and Wolves (by Irène Némirovsky)

Ben, Harry and Ada: they are the protagonists of "I cani e i lupi", the beautiful latest novel by Irène Némirovsky, at

EP 7

The Capuchin Crypt (by Joseph Roth)

The episode of "Per un pugno di libri" focuses on the end of a world, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This is in fact the t

EP 8

The Queen Reader (by Alan Bennett)

The theme of this episode is "The sovereign reader" by Alan Bennett, the book on which the two high school classes compe

EP 9

The Disappearance of Patò (by Andrea Camilleri)

At the center of the episode of "Per un pugno di libri" is a manhunt. "La scomparsa di Patò" by Andrea Camilleri is the

EP 10

Travels with My Aunt (by Graham Greene)

The tenth episode of "For a Fistful of Books" is an invitation to a crazy adventure. At the center of the game, in fact,

EP 11

The Nose (by Nikolai Gogol)

The book in play is the funny long story by Nikolaj Gogol "The Nose": can you suddenly lose your nose, then find it walk

EP 12

The Adventures of Pinocchio (by Carlo Collodi)

Last episode of "Per un pugno di libri": we will finally know which team is the winner of this edition. In fact, competi

EP 1

Neruda's Postman (by Antonio Skármeta)

In the first episode of the new season, the 5°F class of the "G. Galilei" Classical High School in Florence is competin

EP 2

The Componenda Bubble (by Andrea Camilleri)

The theme of this episode is "La bolla di componenda" by Andrea Camilleri, the book on which the two high school classes

EP 3

Amsterdam (di Ian McEwan)

The theme of this episode is "Amsterdam" by Ian McEwan, the book on which the two high school classes compete. The chall

EP 4

Julius Caesar (by William Shakespeare)

Julius Caesar is a masterpiece by the Bard that, by telling us a story of ancient Rome, becomes a very current metaphor

EP 5

Pereira Supports (by Antonio Tabucchi)

Can a small man now on the twilight of his life change, give meaning to his life? Can a simple reporter rediscover the m

EP 6

The Ball (by Irene Nemirovsky)

Adolescence with its turmoil, frustrations and cruelty in the novel "Il ballo" by Irene Némirovsky. In this episode, th

EP 7

The Gambler (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)

"The Gambler" is one of the most fascinating novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky. And it is with it that the boys of the 5°B of

EP 8

Franny and Zooey (by Jerome D. Salinger)

Franny and Zooey, the pair of siblings invented by Jerome D. Salinger, in a fascinating and disturbing family portrait d

EP 9

The Threepenny Opera (by Bertolt Brecht)

The great twentieth-century theater on stage. The students of class 5B of the Gandhi classical high school in Casoria (N

EP 10

Our Man in Havana (by Graham Greene)

Pretending to be something you are not: exactly what the protagonist of "Our Man in Havana", a novel by Graham Greene, d

EP 11

A Year on the Plateau (by Emilio Lussu)

Who will be the 2015 champion of "Per un pugno di libri"? Who will win the final challenge between class 5A of the Amede

EP 1

Don Quixote (by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)

The theme of this episode is "Don Quixote", by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the book on which the two high school class

EP 2

If Not Now, When? (by Primo Levi)

The theme of this episode is "If Not Now, When?", by Primo Levi, the book on which the two high school classes compete.

EP 3

Howards End (by Edward Morgan Forster)

The theme of this episode is "Howard's End", by Edward Morgan Forster, the book on which the two high school classes com

EP 4

The Nonexistent Knight (by Italo Calvino)

The theme of this episode is "The Nonexistent Knight", by Italo Calvino, the book on which the two high school classes c

EP 5

Misery (di Stephen King)

The theme of this episode is "Misery", by Stephen King, the book on which the two high school classes compete. The chall

EP 6

The Double (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)

The theme of this episode is "The Double" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the book on which the two high school classes compete. T

EP 7

To Kill a Mockingbird (by Harper Lee)

The theme of this episode is "To Kill a Mockingbird", by Harper Lee, the book on which the two high school classes compe

EP 8

Maigret's Dead Man (by Georges Simenon)

The theme of this episode is "Maigret's Dead Man", by Georges Simenon, the book on which the two high school classes com

EP 9

Fever Pitch (by Nick Hornby)

The theme of this episode is "Fever Pitch" by Nick Hornby, the book on which the two high school classes compete. The ch

EP 10

Hunting Season (by Andrea Camilleri)

The theme of this episode is "The Hunting Season" by Andrea Camilleri, the book on which the two high school classes com

EP 11

Macbeth (di William Shakespeare)

The theme of this episode is "Macbeth", by William Shakespeare, the book on which the two high school classes compete. T

EP 12

Inferno (by Dante Alighieri)

The theme of this episode is "Inferno" by Dante Alighieri, the book on which the two high school classes compete. The ch

EP 1

Animal Farm (by George Orwell)

The theme of this episode is the famous novel by the British writer George Orwell, "Animal Farm", the book on which the

EP 2

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (by Italo Calvino)

The theme of this episode is "If on a winter's night a traveler" (by Italo Calvino), the book on which the two high scho

EP 3

Let the Tears Flow, Said the Policeman (by Philip K. Dick)

The theme of this episode is "Let the tears flow, the policeman said" by Philip K. Dick, the book on which the two high

EP 4

One Hundred Years of Solitude (by Gabriel Garcìa Márquez)

The theme of this episode is "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcìa Márquez, the book on which the two high

EP 5

Six Characters in Search of an Author (by Luigi Pirandello)

The theme of this episode is "Six Characters in Search of an Author" by Luigi Pirandello, the book on which the two high

EP 6

The Centre-Forward Was Murdered Towards Evening (by Manuel Velasquez Montalban)

The sixth episode of "Per un pugno di libri", the most famous book game in Italy, sees the "Massimo D'Azeglio" Classical

EP 7

Opinions of a Clown (by Heinrich Boll)

The theme of this episode is "Opinions of a Clown" by Heinrich Boll, the book on which the two high school classes are c

EP 8

Taras Bulba (by Nikolai Gogol)

The theme of this episode is "Taras Bulba" by Nikolaj Gogol', the book on which the two high school classes compete. The

EP 9

The Ghost Writer (by Philip Roth)

The theme of this episode is "The Ghost Writer" by Philip Roth, the book on which the two high school classes are compet

EP 10

Around the World in 80 Days (by Jules Verne)

The theme of this episode is "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne, the book on which the two high school classes

EP 11

Doctor Zhivago (by Boris Pasternak)

The theme of this episode is "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak, the book on which the two high school classes compete.

EP 12

The Day of the Owl (by Leonardo Sciascia)

The theme of this episode is "The Day of the Owl" by Leonardo Sciascia, the book on which the two high school classes ar

EP 1

The Catcher in the Rye (by J.D. Salinger)

In this first episode of the new edition, the classes of the Liceo Classico "Tito Livio" of Padua and the Liceo Classico

EP 2

Diary (of Anne Frank)

The second episode of "Per un pugno di libri", the most famous book game in Italy, sees the "Galileo Ferraris" Scientifi

EP 3

The Viceroys (by Federico De Roberto)

The eighteenth edition of the most famous book game in Italy continues unstoppably, with this episode pitting the "Oscar

EP 4

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (by Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

The fourth episode of the most famous book game in Italy sees the Liceo Scientifico "Galileo Galilei" of Palermo and the

EP 5

The Metamorphosis (by Franz Kafka)

In the historic studios of Corso Sempione in Milan, the Liceo Classico "Jacopo Sannazaro" of Naples and the Liceo Classi

EP 6

Cosima (di Grazia Deledda)

In this episode, the Liceo Classico "Dante" of Trieste and the Liceo Classico "Nevio" of Santa Maria Capua Vetere (Caser

EP 7

Bouvard and Pécuchet (by Gustave Flaubert)

This seventh episode of "Per un pugno di libri", the most famous book game in Italy, sees the "Aldo Capitini" Technical

EP 8

Perfume (by Patrick Suskind)

This episode of "Per Un Pugno di libri" sees the "Leonardo da Vinci" Linguistic High School of Civitanova Marche (MC) an

EP 9

Born Twice (by Giuseppe Pontiggia)

This episode sees the Liceo Classico "Giuseppe Mazzini" of Genoa and the Liceo Classico "Galileo Galilei" of Macomer (SS

EP 10

The Massage Ceremony (by Alan Bennett)

The most famous book game in Italy in this episode sees the Liceo Scientifico "Marco Gerolamo Vida" of Cremona and the I

EP 11

The Stranger (by Albert Camus)

This episode of "Per Un Pugno di Libri" sees the "Virgilio" High School of Rome (international-French) and the "Volta" S

EP 12

Richard III (by William Shakespeare)

In this last episode of the eighteenth edition of "Per Un Pugno di Libri", the winners of the "endgame" are the fifth B

EP 1

Fahrenheit 451 (di Ray Bradbury)

In this first episode, the two competing are the Liceo Scientifico "N. Copernico" of Verona and the Liceo Scientifico "V

EP 2

Family Lexicon (by Natalia Ginzburg)

The second episode of the new edition of "Per Un Pugno di Libri" sees the Liceo Classico "Rinaldo Corso" of Correggio an

EP 3

Naked and Raw (by Alan Bennett)

In this episode, the most famous book game on Italian television sees the Liceo Scientifico "F. Enriques" of Lissone (MB

EP 4

A Day in the Life of a Scrutineer (by Italo Calvino)

In this episode of "Per Un Pugno di Libri", the "Vittorio Alfieri" classical high school in Turin and the "Giuseppe Merc

EP 5

Death Rites (by Alicia Giménez Bartlett)

This Saturday, the European Classical High School "Setti Carraro" of Milan and the Technical Institute "Stendhal-Baccell

EP 6

Memoirs of Hadrian (by Marguerite Yourcenar)

The twentieth edition of "Per Un Pugno di Libri" is proceeding unstoppably, with this Saturday's debate between the Lice

EP 7

The Man in the High Castle (by Philip K. Dick)

In this episode of "Per Un Pugno di Libri" the Liceo Classico "Ugo Foscolo" of Pavia and the Liceo Classico "Emanuele Du

EP 8

The Plague (by Albert Camus)

The most famous book game on Italian television this Saturday sees the Liceo Scientifico dell'Istituto "Vittorino-Bernin

EP 9

The Government Inspector (by Nikolai Gogol)

In this episode of "Per Un Pugno di Libri", the "Giuseppe Berto" Scientific High School of Mogliano Veneto confronts the

EP 10

Group Photo with Lady (by Heinrich Böll)

The tenth episode of "Per Un Pugno di libri" sees the "Manfredo Fanti" Scientific High School of Carpi (Mo) and the "Nic

EP 11

Heart of Darkness (by Joseph Conrad)

In this episode, the challenge to the last book is between the Liceo Classico "Giacomo Leopardi" of Recanati (MC) and th

EP 12

The Truce (by Primo Levi)

Last appointment of the season for the twentieth edition of the most famous book game on Italian television. At the helm

EP 1

Martin Eden (di Jack London)

In this first episode, the two competing are the Liceo Classico "Giacomo Leopardi" of Macerata and the Liceo Classico "G

EP 2

Natural Histories (by Primo Levi)

The episode pits the "Guglielmo Marconi" Scientific High School of Carrara against the "Giuseppe Garibaldi" Classical Hi

EP 3

Waiting for Godot (by Samuel Beckett)

The third episode of "Per un Pugno di libri", the most famous book-game on Italian television, sees the Liceo Scientific

EP 4

The Gambler (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)

The fourth episode sees the Liceo Classico "Giulio Cesare" of Rome and the Liceo Classico "Renato Cartesio" of Villaricc

EP 5

Frankenstein (di Mary Shelley)

In this episode, the "Marie Curie" Scientific High School of Meda (MB) and the "Antonio Pacinotti" Scientific High Schoo

EP 6

Poirot at Styles Court (by Agatha Christie)

The episode is tinged with mystery with the novel "Poirot at Styles Court" by the British writer Agatha Christie, publis

EP 7

The Life Ahead (by Romain Gary)

The seventh episode features a comparison between the Liceo Scientifico "Antonio Rosmini" of Rovereto and the Liceo Scie

EP 8

Reunion (by Fred Uhlman)

For a Fistful of Books, sees the "Saluzzo- Plana" Linguistic High School of Alessandria and the "Giuseppe Torno" Scienti

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