Marcovaldo (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Marcovaldo (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

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 habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an

Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

If On A Winter's Night A Traveller (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a

Hermit in Paris (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

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. But this volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest we will ever come to the autobiography of

Complete Cosmicomics (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver in Penguin Modern Classics.'Naturally, we were all

Into the War (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

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', 'The Avanguardisti in Menton' and 'UNPA

Italian Folktales (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Contains stories which range geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the

Our Ancestors (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

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 published in one volume and all displaying the exuberant talent of a master

Mr Palomar (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

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 starlings, Mr Palomar's observations render the world

Road to San Giovanni (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

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 in the Italian Resistance against the

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Calvino Italo)(Paperback)

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. --from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted,

Search (Dyer Geoff)(Paperback / softback)

'If Raymond Chandler and Italo Calvino had collaborated on a road movie script the result might have been somewhat similar' Sunday

Under the Jaguar Sun (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

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 is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression would mean the

Letters 1941-1985 (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

The author was a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This book offers a collection of his

Why Read the Classics? (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author's

Collection of Sand - Essays (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

With encyclopedic knowledge, this title writes about such diverse subjects as the imaginative pleasures of maps, bizarre exhibitions and the earliest forms of written language. It provides a glimpse into the mind of a master of the

Zeno's Conscience (Svevo Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Where to Ski in Italy(Paperback / softback)

Difficult Loves and Other Stories (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative

Adam, One Afternoon (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

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 to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything

Invisible Cities (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

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:

Path to the Spiders' Nests (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's

Castle Of Crossed Destinies (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

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 their stories. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal and chaotic history

Literature Machine - Essays (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

'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 supremely intelligent; he is constantly and supremely faithful to his narrative imagination'