Italo Calvino
Adam One Afternoon
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'Calvino's strength is his economy and subtlety. The best of his allegorical fantasies have the power of the Brothers Grimm, rollicking stories on the surface, with an underlying savagery' Listener
The world of Calvino i... Buy or find out more →
Castle Of Crossed Destinies
$8.95 – Paperback book / Harcourt
Difficult Loves
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'The greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century ' Guardian
'Gleaming with resonant clarity, Calvino's fiction hits the mind's eye with the hard-edged sumptuousness, of a pre-Raphaelite painting. Vividnes, enthralls... Buy or find out more →
Why Read The Classics
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Chinese edition of Why Read the Classics? by the master himself Italo Calvino. An essay collection eloquently reflects on great works and defines what constitutes classics. Buy or find out more →
Road To San Giovanni
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
This major testament by Italo Calvino is composed of of five strikingly elegant "memory exercises" about his life and work. The title piece, "The Road to San Giovanni," poignantly evokes his childhood home. "A Cinema-Goe... Buy or find out more →
Under The Jaguar Sun
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to th... Buy or find out more →
Numbers In The Dark
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Translated by Tim Parks'There is true gold here . . . extraordinary' Sunday TimesNumbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was ... Buy or find out more →
Path To The Spiders Nests
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who €" while the Second World War rages €" sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town €" particularly jokes ab... Buy or find out more →
The Complete Cosmicomics
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
'If you have never read Cosmicomics, you have before you the most joyful reading experience of your life' Salman Rushdie
The Cosmicomics tell the story of the history of the universe, from the big bang, through millennia... Buy or find out more →
Six Memos For The Next Millennium
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Italo Calvino, one of the world's best storytellers, died on the eve of his departure for Harvard, where he was to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in 1985-86. Reticent by nature, he was always reluctant to talk... Buy or find out more →
The Complete Cosmicomics
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
When the moon was closer to the earth, he would – once a month, when its orbit made it possible – climb a ladder to its scaly surface. He remembers life on the nebulae when matter first began to exist, causing great conf... Buy or find out more →
Baron In The Trees
$19.95 – Paperback book / Harcourt
Fantastic Tales
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
With this posthumously published anthology--a successor to his bestselling Italian Folktales--Italo Calvino, a contemporary surveyor of the otherwordly, pays homage to twenty-six of his nineteenth-century precursors. The... Buy or find out more →
Marcovaldo
$20.95 – Paperback book / Harcourt
Cosmicomics
$20.95 – Paperback book / Harcourt
Our Ancestors
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times.
Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for ... Buy or find out more →
Under The Jaguar Sun
$21.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to th... Buy or find out more →
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement s... Buy or find out more →
Italian Folktales
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Hermit In Paris
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of posthumously collecte... Buy or find out more →
T Zero
$23.95 – Paperback book / Harcourt
A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination. "Calvino does what very few writers can do: he describes imaginary worlds with ... Buy or find out more →
Marcovaldo
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times
'Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of stories, both melancholy and funny, about an Italian peasant's struggle to reconcile country habit... Buy or find out more →
Castle Of Crossed Destinies
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
If On A Winters Night A Traveller
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Everymans Library
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Hatful Of Cherries
$24.95 – Paperback book / Aust Scholarly Pub
Lively, moving, humorous, strange, these small records of
other lives in another place are a gift, and so is the austere and
tender mode of their telling. Calvino's is a new voice in the room,
individual, arresting, and ... Buy or find out more →
Difficult Loves
$20.95 – Paperback book / Harcourt
ales of love and loneliness in which the author blends reality and illusion. "The quirkiness and grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work, ...and a certain lovable nuttiness make this collection w... Buy or find out more →
Mr Palomar
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'Here, Calvino, probably Italy's leading novelist before he died, focuses a probing eye on one man's attempt to name the parts of his universe, almost as though Mr Palomar were trying to define and explain his own existe... Buy or find out more →
Invisible Cities
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Invisible Cities is perhaps his most beautiful work-the artist seems to have made peace with the tension between man's ideas of the many and the one New York Review of Books
In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cit... Buy or find out more →