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Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. " Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we ha ...Show more
Difficult Loves and Other Stories by Italo Calvino
$26.00 NZD
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
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
$26.00 NZD
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
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her p ...Show more
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
$40.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
$15.00 NZD
Category: Martii15 | 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
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Contains stories which range geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps.
Last Comes the Raven by Italo Calvino; Archibald Colquhoun (Translator); Ann Goldstein (Translator); Ben Johnson (Translator); William Weaver (Translator); Peggy Wright (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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
$37.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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
Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino
$29.99 NZD
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
$26.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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