Description Number 4 in the Don Camillo series, beloved by 23 million readers.
Later he founded the satirical magazine, \'Candido\', and wrote 346 stories featuring Don Camillo, a character who has done for Italy what Cervantes Don Quixote did for Spain..
He, for the very enjoyment of going the opposite way, determined to become a lawyer, but found his vocation when he sent some cartoons he had drawn to the satirical magazine, \'Bartoldo\'.
His father wanted him to become a naval engineer.
Witty and wise\' -- Edinburgh Evening News ABOUT THE AUTHOR Giovannino Guareschi, known as Giovanni to his millions of English language readers, was born at Fontanelle in the Valley of the Po on the 1st of May, 1908. . . .\' London Evening News \'Inimitable, delicious, full of pure fun\' -- The Observer \'Charming and enchanting . . \'Those who read The Little World of Don Camillo will need no more than the news of this new volume to send them quickly to their bookshops so lovely, so humorous, and so wise.\' Harpers & Queen REVIEWS \'Written with such warmth and simplicity, so concerned with the trivialities of everyday life and giving us so shrewd a glimpse into the minds of the people .
But then fate intervenes and the travellers discover a surprise common denominator more radical than any political ideology...
Travelling incognito, Don Camillo becomes the life and soul of the Party and picks off his totalitarian comrades one-by-one in a hilarious riot of shrewd manipulation.
When Peppone loses out to Don Camillo on a matter of conscience he must accept the battling priest\'s presence among a group of communist activists on a trip he is organising to Mother Russia.
Description Number 4 in the Don Camillo series, beloved by 23 million readers
