Ve slavné knize Itala Calvina Neviditelná města vypráví Marco Polo na dvoře Kublaj chána postupně o městech, nazvaných exotickými ženskými jmény; vypráví o místech, která navštívil,...
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Marcovaldo arbeitet hart, um seine Familie durchzubringen. Er ist sehr naturverbunden, doch leider spielt sich sein Leben in der Großstadt ab. Anfangs ist er etwas skeptisch der Großstadt...
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Calvino's masterpiece opens with a scene that's reassuringly commonplace: apparently. Indeed, it's taking place now. A reader goes into a bookshop to buy a book: not...
'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman Rushdie From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco...
"Un classique est un livre qui n'a jamais fini de dire ce qu'il a à dire. " Pour comprendre qui nous sommes, Italo Calvino nous invite à lire ou relire les chefs-d'oeuvre...
"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...
'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...
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"Why Read the Classics?" is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define...
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"One of the most rigorously presented and beautifully illustrated critical testaments in all of literature. "--Boston Globe "A brilliant, original approach to literature, a key to Calvino's...
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This title enchants stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. They disport themselves among...
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie...
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The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: "I shot him between the eyes. " As the tale--a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness--proceeds,...
A series of short, fantastic narratives inspired by fifteenth-century tarot cards and their archetypical images. Full-color and black-and-white reproductions of tarot cards. Translated...
"Personaggio buffo e melanconico, Marcovaldo è il protagonista d'una serie di favole moderne" scrisse Italo Calvino, segnando, come in un suo bloc-notes, avvenimenti impercettibili...
"All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics. " --from Why Read the Classics? Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works...
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Der Ritter Agilulf ist der beste Ritter im Heer Karls des Großen: perfekt, humorlos und pedantisch. Er hat nur einen Makel, es gibt ihn nicht. Und so kann er bei einer Parade vor dem...
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Dove fanno il nido i ragni? L'unico a saperlo è Pin, che ha dieci anni, è orfano di entrambi i genitori e conosce molto bene la radura nei boschi in cui si rifugiano i piccoli...
Two novellas: the first, a parody of medieval knighthood told by a nun; the second, a fantasy about a nobleman bisected into his good and evil halves. "Bravura pieces... executed with...
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Intricate interior lives are brilliantly explored in these short stories, now presented in one definitive collection as Calvino intended them In Difficult Loves, Italy's master...
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A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms Cosimo di Rond , a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth...
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Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. "Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most...
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La storia del Barone Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, indomabile ribelle che a dodici anni sale su un albero per non ridiscenderne mai più, è considerata uno dei capolavori di Calvino. Questa...
An empty suit of armor is the hero in this witty novella, a picaresque gem--now available in an independent volume for the first time--that brilliantly parodies medieval knighthood...
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In mezzo alla città di cemento e asfalto, Marcovaldo va in cerca della Natura. Ma esiste ancora, la Natura? Quella che egli trova è una Natura dispettosa, contraffatta, compromessa...
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