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Fantastic Tales: Visionary And Everyday
A collection of nineteenth-century fantastic literature - from enchantments and horrors to subtler, psychological terrors. It includes Hoffmann's The Sandman , Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart and Dickens' The Signal-Man , and works...
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The Narrative of Trajan’s Column
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The Baron in the Trees
A gorgeous new edition of a playful, romantic fable by one of the twentieth century's master storytellers. From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond,...
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Le Vicomte Pourfendu
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The Literature Machine: Essays
'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time.. .Calvino is not only constantly and supremely intelligent; he is constantly and...
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The Path to the Spiders' Nests
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 about his sister,...
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Under the Jaguar Sun
A couple on a 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 the sounds around him -...
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Numbers in the Dark
A collection of short stories covering the length of the author's writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. It includes fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of...
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The Castle Of Crossed Destinies
A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their stories. What follows is an exquisite...
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Mr Palomar
Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's observations render the...
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The Distance of the Moon
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The Complete Cosmicomics
Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures.
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Our Ancestors
Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; These three vivid images are the points of departure for Calvino's classic triptych of moral tales, now published in one volume and all displaying the...
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If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller
You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many...
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Invisible Cities
Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice.
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Collection of Sand: Essays
With encyclopedic knowledge, this title writes about such diverse subjects as the imaginative pleasures of maps, bizarre exhibitions and the earliest forms of written language. It provides a glimpse into the mind of a master of...
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
A collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was preparing to deliver at the time of his death, setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued, and which he believed would define literature in the century to come. Together,...
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The Baron in the Trees
A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms
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Difficult Loves
This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts. As well as the eleven tales from his Difficult...
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1985-86, but they were left unfinished at his death. The surviving drafts explore of the concepts of lightness, quickness, multiplicity, exactitude...
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Adam, One Afternoon
The world of Calvino is a world of fable, but he uses its mechanisms to focus with unerring precision on human reality. Nature in these stories has a magical quality in the flight of a crow, the iridescent track of a snail, the...
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Why Read the Classics?
Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author's criticism.
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Marcovaldo
Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical...
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The Written World and the Unwritten World
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The Baron in the Trees
'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman Rushdie From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia,...
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The Road to San Giovanni
Includes five autobiographical meditations that delves into the author's past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists.
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The Queen’s Necklace
Contains such stories as The Queen's Necklace and The Workshop Hen .
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Into the War
A collection of stories. Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, it explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as the author's own experiences as a teenager. It features such stories as: ...
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Hermit in Paris
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. This volume of posthumously collected personal...
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Letters 1941-1985
The author was a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This book offers a collection of his letters.
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The Nonexistent Knight
An empty suit of armor is the hero in this witty novella, a picaresque gem that brilliantly parodies medieval knighthood.
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Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings
A posthumously published collection of Italo Calvino's autobiographical writings recounting his experiences in Italy's antifascist resistance, paying homage to his influences, tracing the evolution of his literary style, and...
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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The Cloven Viscount
In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures.
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The Complete Cosmicomics
The definitive edition of the cosmicomics, Italo Calvino's short stories exploring natural phenomena and the origins of the universe. The Complete Cosmicomics brings together all of these enchanting stories--including some never...
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Difficult Loves and Other Stories
A spectacular display of this key European writer's early work This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and...
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Difficult Loves
Intricate interior lives are brilliantly explored in these short stories, now presented in this collection as Calvino intended them.
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T Zero
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
A postmodern novel which combines a love and a detective story with a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in an allegory of reading. Two readers attempt to finish the same book, but are comically and repeatedly...
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The Uses of Literature
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Translation of: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore.
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The Watcher and Other Stories
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Into the War
Appearing here in its first English translation, Into the War contains three stories drawing on Italo Calvino's memories of the Second World War in Italy.
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The Road to San Giovanni
Heartfelt, affecting, and wise, the essay collection The Road to San Giovanni offers Italo Calvino's reflections on his own life and work in five elegant memory exercises.
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The Path to the Spiders' Nests: Revised Edition
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Tomas Saraceno
The first thorough monograph on Tomas Saraceno's groundbreaking installations, modeling a utopian future of balance between humanity and nature
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To Those Gods Beyond
A classic of italian literature, now in english for the first time.
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Love and Gymnastics
Feted by Italo Calvino yet not currently available in English, this rare novella by one of Italy's best-loved literary talents intriguingly links the themes of romantic love and competitive sportsmanship.
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