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Cosmicomics (Little Clothbound Classics) by Italo Calvino
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Twelve enchanting and fantastical stories about the evolution of the universe from the giant of Italian literature, Italo Cal ...Show more
Difficult Loves and Other Stories by Italo Calvino
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Category: Fiction
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 narrative gifts. As well as the thirteen tales from his Difficult Loves collec ...Show more
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
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Category: Fiction | 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
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
42.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her p ...Show more
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
36.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino's incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous masterwork.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 replac ...Show more
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
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Category: Fiction | Series: IV | Reading Level: very good
In 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. As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a ...Show more
Last Comes the Raven by Italo Calvino; Archibald Colquhoun (Translator); Ann Goldstein (Translator); Ben Johnson (Translator); William Weaver (Translator); Peggy Wright (Translator)
22.99 AUD
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
Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino
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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 Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ...like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void' With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future. His effervescent last works, left unfinish ...Show more
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
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. He walks through paths made from the twisted branches of olive, makes his bed in ...Show more
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
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Category: Fiction
'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' - Salman RushdieFrom the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond, living up in the trees. He walks through paths made from the t ...Show more
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino; Martin McLaughlin (translator); Tim Parks (translator); William Weaver (translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"We were peering into this darkness, criss-crossed with voices, when the change took place: the only real, great change I've ever happened to witness, and compared to it the rest is nothing." -- from The Complete Cosmicomics Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed ...Show more