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2nd Hand Six Memos For The Millenium: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1985-86 by Italo Calvino
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
2nd Hand The Path to the Spiders' Nests by Italo Calvino
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'. Among those his sister sleeps ...Show more
2nd hand Marcovaldo - Or the Seasons in the City by Italo Calvino; W. Weaver Jr. (Translator)
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Category: Literature | Series: Picador Bks.
A charming portrait of one man's dreams and schemes, by "the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century" (Guardian).In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, an unskilled worker in a drab northern industrial city in the 1950s and ...Show more
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
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Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell 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 seems to be a totally different story. You ...Show more
Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino
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Category: Children's Books | 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.
Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino
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Category: Literature | 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
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