--- product_id: 51096024 title: "Christ Stopped at Eboli (Penguin Modern Classics)" price: "₹ 2951" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/51096024-christ-stopped-at-eboli-penguin-modern-classics store_origin: IN region: India --- # Same-day Dispatch <12pm NewMint Condition No Quibbles Returns Christ Stopped at Eboli (Penguin Modern Classics) **Price:** ₹ 2951 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📚 Unlock the hidden Italy where history paused—own the story everyone’s talking about! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Christ Stopped at Eboli (Penguin Modern Classics) - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 2951 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/51096024-christ-stopped-at-eboli-penguin-modern-classics) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Top-Ranked Classic:** Join thousands of discerning readers who rated this book 4.5 stars and propelled it into the top 1,300 Fiction Classics. - • **Hassle-Free Returns:** Change your mind? No questions asked. Returns made effortless to keep your purchase risk-free. - • **Lightning-Fast Dispatch:** Order before noon and get your copy shipped the very same day—because your next great read shouldn’t wait. - • **Timeless Literary Insight:** Dive into Carlo Levi’s profound memoir revealing Italy’s forgotten corners under Fascism—an essential read for cultural connoisseurs. - • **Pristine NewMint Condition:** Experience this Penguin Modern Classic as if it just left the press—flawless and ready for your collection. ## Overview Christ Stopped at Eboli is a Penguin Modern Classic memoir by Carlo Levi, capturing his exile in 1930s Fascist Italy. Praised for its vivid portrayal of isolated peasant life and political insight, this edition ships same day if ordered before noon, arrives in pristine new condition, and offers no-hassle returns. A top-ranked, critically acclaimed work that blends history, politics, and humanity for the discerning reader. ## Description 'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by custom and sorrow, without comfort or solace, where, eternally patient, the peasants lived in an age-old stillness and in the presence of death - for Christ did stop at Eboli. Review: A truly admirable book and an enjoyable read. - After having read Primo Levi heap glowing praise on Carlo Levi I thought it really was time to search out a good starting point for his works. As Christ Stopped at Eboli got such warm praise from the other readers here I thought I really should begin with this. This book is a fascinating, if at times slightly paternalistic, insight into peasant Italy under the Fascist dictatorship of Mussolini. It gives us a glimpse of an older Italy which no longer exists where the feudal classes were still in control and the influence of American expatriates had not brought about any change in Italy's social balance. One reader's comments about Anarcho Syndicalism drew me to compare it with Homage To Catalonia (peasants in Feudal Spain as opposed to peasants in Feudal Italy) but I found Orwell's descriptions to be far less sympathetic, far more patronising, and far more obviously from the perspective of an outsider. Carlo Levi's book is very enjoyable, beautifully written, and from the warmth of his warts and all descriptions; it is obvious that he became a part of the community in which he lived for the years of his political exile. A truly admirable book and an enjoyable read. Review: The peasants need quinine! - A memoir from 1930s at the start of Mussolini's Abyssinia campaign. Levi was exiled as a political prisoner to two remote small towns in Luciana - most of the book is about Gagliano, wind swept and stuck between two ridges on a pale and barren clay. The clash in civilisations is on several levels; between the gentry and the peasants with the former ruthlessly exploiting the latter who are dirt poor; between the North and South (Levi was from Turin) and between Rome and its remote provinces. The book ends with a treatise on the remoteness of Rome and a plea for the peasants to be given a stake in their future through more regional autonomy. The book describes the medical conditions of the peasants (primarily malaria and anthrax), the appalling behaviour of the gentry, the malign fatalism of the church, the superstitions of the community and the fascist politics of the period. A great read and a real eye opener into conditions of the time. ## Features - New - Mint Condition - Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon - Guaranteed packaging - No quibbles returns ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 20,930 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 1,256 in Fiction Classics (Books) 2,991 in Biographies & Memoirs (Books) 3,578 in Social Sciences (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 611 Reviews | ## Images ![Christ Stopped at Eboli (Penguin Modern Classics) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81+ytAPEvnL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A truly admirable book and an enjoyable read. *by M***S on 25 July 2015* After having read Primo Levi heap glowing praise on Carlo Levi I thought it really was time to search out a good starting point for his works. As Christ Stopped at Eboli got such warm praise from the other readers here I thought I really should begin with this. This book is a fascinating, if at times slightly paternalistic, insight into peasant Italy under the Fascist dictatorship of Mussolini. It gives us a glimpse of an older Italy which no longer exists where the feudal classes were still in control and the influence of American expatriates had not brought about any change in Italy's social balance. One reader's comments about Anarcho Syndicalism drew me to compare it with Homage To Catalonia (peasants in Feudal Spain as opposed to peasants in Feudal Italy) but I found Orwell's descriptions to be far less sympathetic, far more patronising, and far more obviously from the perspective of an outsider. Carlo Levi's book is very enjoyable, beautifully written, and from the warmth of his warts and all descriptions; it is obvious that he became a part of the community in which he lived for the years of his political exile. A truly admirable book and an enjoyable read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The peasants need quinine! *by S***. on 16 September 2014* A memoir from 1930s at the start of Mussolini's Abyssinia campaign. Levi was exiled as a political prisoner to two remote small towns in Luciana - most of the book is about Gagliano, wind swept and stuck between two ridges on a pale and barren clay. The clash in civilisations is on several levels; between the gentry and the peasants with the former ruthlessly exploiting the latter who are dirt poor; between the North and South (Levi was from Turin) and between Rome and its remote provinces. The book ends with a treatise on the remoteness of Rome and a plea for the peasants to be given a stake in their future through more regional autonomy. The book describes the medical conditions of the peasants (primarily malaria and anthrax), the appalling behaviour of the gentry, the malign fatalism of the church, the superstitions of the community and the fascist politics of the period. A great read and a real eye opener into conditions of the time. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Loving crystallisation’ of the harshness and yet deeper truth of peasant poverty *by V***S on 8 August 2023* Desperate southern Italian poverty, stretching unchanged from medieval times, exposed by the compassionate observations of the Turinese narrator. (Carlo Levi was exiled by Mussolini for his anti-fascist activities to a remote Calabrian village during 1935-36.) So much is in this fascinating and fluently written book. There is the extraordinary, beaten fatalism of the peasantry, underscored by deep superstition, which Levi relays without comment or irony. For example, ‘a lost baby a few months old was found on top of one of two trees flanking Saint Anthony’s chapel… A devil had carried him there, and Saint Anthony took him under his protection.’ The peasants hide their amulets and incantations from the respected northern Doctor, but Levi gradually discovers them, and is respectful. Then there are memorable scenes of pig slaughter and harsh peasant attitudes, born of the desperate need to survive. Levi’s graphic descriptions render the sensual animality (to a 21st century urban mind) normal and acceptable. There is an unexpected moment of epiphany in Levi as a shepherd lies dying after an accident: ‘I loved these peasants and I was sad…Why, then, at the same time, did a great feeling of peace pervade me? … I was hidden, like a shoot under the bark of a tree, beyond the reach of man… I felt as if all of a sudden I had penetrated the very heart of the universe. An immense happiness, such as I had never known, swept over me with a flow of fulfilment.’ The government, of course, is malignant and grasping: ‘These over-taxed peasants would make a day’s journey on foot from Senise to sell two lire worth of celery...’ A few, such as the police and some of the rich (a very relative term), worship the state. At the end, Levi gives his own thoughts on how to improve conditions, focused on devolving power, ‘suppressing’ the middle class (unclear what this means), reforestation and investment in small-scale agriculture. Somehow, ‘groups of autonomies’ would arise in this ‘peasant revolution’ in which there would be little need of a central state. Levi’s anarchic vision did not come to pass, though he did inspire some attempts to improve matters, which ran into the sands of entrenched opposition. Thus, the Mafia – who were at least their own kind - deepened its strangle-hold on the loyalties and economy of the ancient peasantry. Meanwhile, this experience in the far south helped Levi himself slowly to gain insight into life and human society, nurturing his own ‘poetic freedom’, though there he gives little sense of a deeper spiritual awareness. Note that Levi is not as good a story-teller as Norman Lewis, who wrote a remarkable description of his time in the later 1940s in a desolate Spanish fishing village, from a similar progressive, compassionate perspective (Voices of the Old Sea). ## Frequently Bought Together - Christ Stopped at Eboli - The Leopard: A Novel - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.in/products/51096024-christ-stopped-at-eboli-penguin-modern-classics](https://www.desertcart.in/products/51096024-christ-stopped-at-eboli-penguin-modern-classics) --- *Product available on Desertcart India* *Store origin: IN* *Last updated: 2026-07-07*