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Collection of Sand by Italo Calvino
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. The essays collected here display his fascination with the visual universe, in which the things we see tell a truth about the world. With encyclopedic knowledge and engaging curiosity, Calvino writes about such diverse subje ...Show more
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: Smog - A Plunge into Real Estate by Italo Calvino
12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Gleaming with resonant clarity, Calvino's fiction hits the mind's eye with the hard-edged sumptuousness, of a pre-Raphaelite painting. Vividnes, enthralls him. Story after story in DIFFICULT LOVES sparkle, with heightened reSponsiveness to life. Capturing the tiniest tactile sensations and the heart-po ...Show more
Difficult Loves and Other Stories by Italo Calvino
22.99 AUD
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
Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday by Italo Calvino
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. These mysterious and macabre tales include Hoffmann's nightmarish "The Sandman", Poe's terrifying "The Tell-Tale Heart" and ...Show more
Hermit in Paris by Italo Calvino
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest we will ever come to the autobiography of this mo ...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
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
Into the War by Italo Calvino
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Category: Fiction
This book deals both with a transition from adolescence into youth and with a move from peace to war: as for very many other people, for the protagonist of this book entry into life and entry into war coincide. from the Author s Note These three stories, set during the summer of 1940, draw on Italo Calv ...Show more
Into the War by Italo Calvino
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the title story, "Into the War", we are given an insight into what life was really like for those too young to ...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
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Contains stories which range geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps.