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:...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 64, Editura: Penguin Books, Autor: Italo Calvino, ISBN-13: 9780241339107, Data emiterii: 2018...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 288, Editura: Penguin Books, Autor: Italo Calvino, ISBN-13: 9780141189703, Data emiterii: 2009...
Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; These three vivid images are the points of departure for Calvino's classic triptych of moral tales, now...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Copertă tare, Număr pagini: 192, Editura: MARINER, Autor: CALVINO ITALO, ISBN-13: 9780063417625, Data emiterii: 2025...
Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Calvino is himself...
Includes five autobiographical meditations that delves into the author's past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting...
Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant...
Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT is the tale of two bemused readers...
A couple on a journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king...
A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino's genre-switching masterwork. A book of surprise and adventure but you, the reader, are the hero. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a...
Limba: italiană, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 144, Editura: Mondadori, Autor: Italo Calvino, ISBN-13: 9788804772729, Data emiterii: 2023...
The Castle of Crossed Destinies...
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A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell...
'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...
La nuvola di smog-La formica argentina...
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This collection of playful, deadly febles is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story The Argentine Ant moved Gore Vidal...
Limba: italiană, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 204, Editura: Mondadori, Autor: Italo Calvino, ISBN-13: 9788804772750, Data emiterii: 2023...
'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time-Calvino is not only constantly and...
A collection of nineteenth-century fantastic literature - from enchantments and horrors to subtler, psychological terrors. It includes Hoffmann's "The Sandman", Poe's "The Tell-Tale...
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. This...
The Written World and the Unwritten World...
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