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Italo Calvino
‘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…
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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…
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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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A scintillating collection of essays that encapsulates the great Italian writer’s approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature, now available in English for the first time
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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…
A captivating, realist collection of Calvino's early stories
These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuous and unnerving.
Calvino's war-torn…
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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…
This is an account of the universe as a cosmic joke, surreal random fiction. Ofwfq is like matter - he can be neither created nor destroyed. In 1000 diverse shapes…
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Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
‘Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and…
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…
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VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful
A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino's genre-switching masterwork. A book of surprise and adventure but you, the reader, are the hero.
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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…
Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures.
One of the world’s best storytellers, Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities) pinpoints for future generations the universal values for literature. Here are his works, methods, intentions, and hopes.
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished
Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous essays are not great ideas in themselves but commentaries on great…
Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author’s criticism.
Available in English for the first time, a collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of this great Italian master’s approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature
Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Calvino is himself clearly captivated…
P Morris,Alain Wesson,McLaughlin
This first study in English of the complete writings of Italo Calvino (1923-85) offers new interpretations of Calvino’s main works, taking into account some important unpublished material, and analyses Calvino’s…
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Dani Cavallaro
Examines the work of Italo Calvino in the context of the philosophical ideas he advanced in his theoretical and critical output. In the process, this examination bears witness to an…
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…
The three long stories in this volume show the range and virtuosity of Italy’s most imaginative writer. Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams…
In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino…
A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino’s invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
‘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…
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.
A posthumously published collection of short stories that span the breadth of Italo Calvino’s career.
The first complete English-language edition of one of Calvino’s important early short story collections
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.
A revision of the translation published in 1956 which incorporates changes made by the author to the work first published in 1947 and subsequently revised in 1964.
Italo Calvino’s last fictional work is a witty, elegant, fantastic rendering of the ultimate observer, whose name, Mr. Palomar, deliberately evokes the famous telescope. Beautiful, nimble, solitary feats of imagination…
A charming portrait of one man’s dreams and schemes, by the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century (Guardian).
Italo Calvino’s classic, multifaceted novel about writing and readers.
Italo Calvino’s beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor’s travels – a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory.
Chosen by The New York Times as one of its best books in the year of its original publication, this treasure trove of 200 lively Italian folktales has won a…
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…
A collection of short stories compiled, edited, and introduced by Italo Calvino – including works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Balzac, Gogol, Poe, and many others – surveying the phenomenon of the…
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…
An empty suit of armor is the hero in this witty novella, a picaresque gem that brilliantly parodies medieval knighthood.
A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms
Intricate interior lives are brilliantly explored in these short stories, now presented in this collection as Calvino intended them.
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…
