mario rigoni stern – European Literature Network

Apr 24^th

Tönle’s Arrest. An extract from TÖNLE’S STORY by Mario Rigoni Stern, with illustrations by Quentin Blake, translated by Joe Whitlock Blundell, Part 2

Part 2 Never had it befallen him to pasture his sheep under armed guard, nor had he ever heard tell of such a thing; and the two Styrian soldiers charged with this duty were happy

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Apr 23^rd

Tönle’s Arrest. An extract from TÖNLE’S STORY by Mario Rigoni Stern, with illustrations by Quentin Blake, translated by Joe Whitlock Blundell, Part 1

I came across the work of Mario Rigoni Stern completely by chance, picking up one of his books in an idle moment at a railway station some forty years ago. But it was only many yea

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