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ISBN: 9780099430896 - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Bestseller If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Italo Calvino

ISBN10: 0099430894  ISBN13: 9780099430896
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Apr 2002
Leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary, and a quest. Calvino's masterpiece opens with a scene that's reassuringly commonplace: apparently. Indeed, it's taking place now. More

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ISBN: 9780141189680 - The Complete Cosmicomics The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino

ISBN10: 0141189681  ISBN13: 9780141189680
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 May 2010
Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. This title enchants stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from... More

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ISBN: 9780141193731 - Into the War Into the War
Italo Calvino

ISBN10: 0141193735  ISBN13: 9780141193731
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Nov 2011
A collection of stories. Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, it explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as the author's own experiences as a teenager. It features such stories as: "Into the War"... More

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ISBN: 9780141195834 - The Queen's Necklace The Queen's Necklace
Italo Calvino

ISBN10: 0141195835  ISBN13: 9780141195834
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Feb 2011
Contains such stories as "The Queen's Necklace" and "The Workshop Hen". 'The inspector ordered that the bird be searched. One of the agents stalled saying it made him feel sick, and after some fierce pecking another withdrew sucking a bleeding... More

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ISBN: 9781857151381 - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Italo Calvino

ISBN10: 1857151380  ISBN13: 9781857151381
Publisher: Everyman Everyman's Library
Edition: New edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 20 May 1993
A postmodern novel which combines a love and a detective story with a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in an allegory of reading. Two readers attempt to finish the same book, but are comically and repeatedly frustrated. More

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ISBN: 9780099268055 - The Castle of Crossed Destinies The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Italo Calvino

ISBN10: 0099268051  ISBN13: 9780099268055
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Oct 1997
Turns the 78 tarot cards to a new purpose, linking word and image to the purposes of narrative. A band of travellers, trapped in an gloomy castle in the heart of a wood, find themselves struck dumb and are only able to converse by using the tarot... More

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ISBN: 9780099430865 - Our Ancestors Our Ancestors
Italo Calvino

ISBN10: 009943086X  ISBN13: 9780099430865
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: Re-issue
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Feb 1992
A triptych of novels in one volume. Viscount Medardo is bisected by a cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, aged 12, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; and Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. More

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ISBN: 9780099428541 - Marcovaldo Marcovaldo
Italo Calvino

ISBN10: 0099428547  ISBN13: 9780099428541
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 22 Mar 2001
A collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. It charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life... More

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ISBN: 9780099287032 - Adam, One Afternoon Adam, One Afternoon
Italo Calvino

ISBN10: 009928703X  ISBN13: 9780099287032
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Aug 1992
A collection of fables. It is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. It features a comic story "The Argentine Ant". This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays... More

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ISBN: 9780099430889 - Difficult Loves Difficult Loves
Italo Calvino

ISBN10: 0099430886  ISBN13: 9780099430889
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Sep 1993
A collection of stories that follows the adventures of a cast of characters. It includes "Smog" and "A Plunge into Real Estate", as well as other eleven tales. This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast... More