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Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 by Italo Calvino
65.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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)
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
Letters 1941-1985 by Italo Calvino
29.99 AUD
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
19.99 AUD
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.
Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
24.95 AUD
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
Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino
14.99 AUD
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
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
24.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
19.99 AUD
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 Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
24.99 AUD
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 Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino; Martin McLaughlin (translator); Tim Parks (translator); William Weaver (translator)
22.99 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
The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino
2.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful short stories taken from Calvino's Cosmicomics.