Italo Calvino

Adam, One Afternoon

Italo Calvino

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…

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The Castle of Crossed Destinies

Italo Calvino

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…

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Why Read the Classics?

Italo Calvino

Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author’s criticism.

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The Road to San Giovanni

Italo Calvino

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…

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Under the Jaguar Sun

Italo Calvino

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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Numbers in the Dark

Italo Calvino

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…

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The Path to the Spiders’ Nests

Italo Calvino

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…

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The Complete Cosmicomics

Italo Calvino

Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures.

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Fantastic Tales: Visionary And Everyday

Italo Calvino

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…

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Marcovaldo: or the Seasons in the City

Italo Calvino

A charming portrait of one man’s dreams and schemes, by the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century (Guardian).

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Our Ancestors

Italo Calvino

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…

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Mr Palomar

Italo Calvino

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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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

Italo Calvino

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…

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The Castle Of Crossed Destinies

Italo Calvino

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…

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Marcovaldo

Italo Calvino

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…

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T Zero

Italo Caluino

A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination. Calvino does what very few writers can do…

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Italian Folktales

Italo Calvino

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…

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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

Italo Calvino

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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Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

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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Italo Calvino

Adam, One Afternoon

The Castle of Crossed Destinies

Why Read the Classics?

The Road to San Giovanni

Under the Jaguar Sun

Numbers in the Dark

The Path to the Spiders’ Nests

The Complete Cosmicomics

Fantastic Tales: Visionary And Everyday

Marcovaldo: or the Seasons in the City

Our Ancestors

Mr Palomar

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

The Castle Of Crossed Destinies

Marcovaldo

T Zero

Italian Folktales

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

Invisible Cities