'These haunting stories about this haunting place... Somehow Guareschi made people laugh at their own predicament at a time when humour was sorely needed.' BBC Radio Four

As everyone knows, taking a serpent by the tail is not a good idea. But in the Little World of Don Camillo, where the Devil crops up in many a guise to break the quiet rhythm of everyday life, hilarious and unearthly things can happen to draw the poison from his bite...

No. 7 in the Don Camillo Series, this bumper volume of classic Tales from the Lower Plain includes many stories by Guareschi never before translated into English.