"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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"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...
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...
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,...
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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"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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"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...
'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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"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...
A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne,...
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'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...
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...
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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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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