. "The Prison Notebooks (Italian: Quaderni del carcere [kwa\u02C8d\u025Brni del \u02C8kart\u0283ere]) were a series of essays written by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci was imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926. The notebooks were written between 1929 and 1935, when Gramsci was released from prison on grounds of ill-health. He died in April 1937.He wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis during his imprisonment."@en . .