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Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 by Italo Calvino
Category: Biography
This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a winter's night a traveler. B ...Show more
Last Comes the Raven by Italo Calvino; Archibald Colquhoun (Translator); Ann Goldstein (Translator); Ben Johnson (Translator); William Weaver (Translator); Peggy Wright (Translator)
Category: Fiction
These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuous and unnerving. Calvino's war-torn Italy is vivid, intense, almost hyper-real. A trio of greedy burglars rob a pastry shop, a boy offers a girl presents of toads and insects from the garden ...Show more
Letters 1941-1985 by Italo Calvino
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The extraordinary letters of Italo Calvino, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, translated into English for the first time by Martin McLaughlin, with an introduction by Michael Wood. Italo Calvino, Italy's most important postwar novelist, was also an influential literary critic, an import ...Show more
Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. It charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider.
Mr.Palomar by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction
Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's observations render the world afresh.
Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Numbers in the Dark" is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; a ...Show more
Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . . . Distance has been the warp that supports the weft of every love story." -- from Numbers in the Dark Written between 1943 and 1984, the stories in Numbers in the Dark span the career of one of fiction's moder ...Show more
Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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 the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. These three vivid images are the points of departure for Calvino's classic triptych ...Show more
Six Memos For The Millenium: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1985-86 by Italo Calvino
Category: Culture
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
Category: Classic Fiction
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 and visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth) in serious yet playful essay ...Show more
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
Category: Classic Fiction
"One of the most rigorously presented and beautifully illustrated critical testaments in all of literature."--Boston Globe "A brilliant, original approach to literature, a key to Calvino's own work and a thoroughly delightful and illuminating commentary on some of the world's greatest writing."--San Fra ...Show more