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  • NUMBERS IN THE DARK
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    NUMBERS IN THE DARK
    ITALO CALVINO
    From the acclaimed, genre-bending Italian fabulist author, a posthumous collection of career-spanning stories previously unavailable in English. "Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . . . Distance has been the warp that supports the weft of every love story." —from Numbers in the Dark Written between 1943 and 1984, the storie...

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  • THE COMPLETE COSMICOMICS
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    THE COMPLETE COSMICOMICS
    ITALO CALVINO
    The complete collection of "nimble and often hilarious" short stories exploring the cosmos by the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities (Colin Dwyer, NPR).   Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of a "cosmic know-it-all" with the unpronounceable name of Qfwfq, Calvi...

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  • SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM
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    SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM
    ITALO CALVINO
    The celebrated author of Cosmicomics and Invisible Cities shares his “brilliant, original approach to literature” in these late-career lectures (San Francisco Chronicle).   At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on his Charles Eliot Norton poetry lectures to be delivered the following year at Harvard University. The six planned lectures would define the qualities h...

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  • MARCOVALDO
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    MARCOVALDO
    ITALO CALVINO
    A charming portrait of one man’s dreams and schemes, by “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (The Guardian).   In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, an unskilled worker in a drab northern industrial city in the 1950s and ’60s, struggling to reconcile his old country habits with his current...

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  • MR. PALOMAR
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    MR. PALOMAR
    ITALO CALVINO
    A novel of a delightful eccentric on a search for truth, by the renowned author of Invisible Cities.   In The New York Times Book Review, the poet Seamus Heaney praised Mr. Palomar as a series of “beautiful, nimble, solitary feats of imagination.” Throughout these twenty-seven intricately structured chapters, the musings of the crusty Mr. Palomar consistently render the world s...

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  • THE ROAD TO SAN GIOVANNI
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    THE ROAD TO SAN GIOVANNI
    ITALO CALVINO
    From the Italian author, personal essays featuring his relationship with his father, his love of movies, and fighting fascism during World War II. “In each other’s presence we became mute, would walk in silence side by side along the road to San Giovanni. To my father’s mind, words must serve as confirmations of things, and as signs of possession; to mine, they were foretastes ...

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  • WHY READ THE CLASSICS?
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    WHY READ THE CLASSICS?
    ITALO CALVINO
    This collection of essays by the acclaimed author of Cosmicomics offers a fascinating, personal journey through some of literature's greatest works.   Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works of enduring cultural value, but also personal touchstones. They are the books we are always rereading in order to understand our world and ourselves. Here, Calvino introduc...

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  • COLLECTION OF SAND
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    COLLECTION OF SAND
    ITALO CALVINO
    This "brilliant collection of essays" and travelogues by the celebrated author of  Invisible Cities "may change the way you see the world around you" ( The Guardian, UK).   Italo Calvino's boundless curiosity and ingenious imagination are displayed in peak form in  Collection of Sand, his last collection of new works published during his lifetime. Delving into the delights of t...

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  • THE CLOVEN VISCOUNT
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    THE CLOVEN VISCOUNT
    ITALO CALVINO
    When a nobleman is split in two, his separate halves pursue different adventures in a fantastically macabre tale by the author of Invisible Cities.   It is the seventeenth century, and the Viscount Medardo of Terralba must go into battle against the Turks. But the inexperienced warrior is soon bisected lengthwise by a cannonball. Through a miracle of stitching, one half of him ...

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  • HERMIT IN PARIS
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    HERMIT IN PARIS
    ITALO CALVINO
    This collection of journals, interviews and travelogues by the author of Invisible Cities has “something fascinating on every page” (The Guardian, UK). This posthumously published collection offers a unique, puzzle-like portrait of one of the postwar era’s most inventive and mercurial writers. In letters and journals, occasional pieces and interviews, Italo Calvino recalls grow...

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  • THE WATCHER AND OTHER STORIES
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    THE WATCHER AND OTHER STORIES
    ITALO CALVINO
    This collection of three long stories by the author of Cosmicomics “demonstrates clearly his talent for transforming the mundane into the marvelous” (The New York Times). Italo Calvino is widely recognized as one of postwar Italy’s greatest fiction writers and one of the twentieth century’s greatest fabulists. This collection of three stories showcases his range and virtuosity....

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  • ITALIAN FOLKTALES
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    ITALIAN FOLKTALES
    ITALO CALVINO
    One of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are “a treasure” (Los Angeles Times).   Filled with kings and peasants, saints and ogres—as well as some quite extraordinary plants and animals—these two hundred tales bring to life Italy’s folklore, sometimes with earthy humor, sometimes with noble mystery, ...

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  • UN MISTERIO EN EL LABERINTO
    UN MISTERIO EN EL LABERINTO
    ITALO CALVINO
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    $230.00

  • DIFFICULT LOVES
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    DIFFICULT LOVES
    ITALO CALVINO
    The author of Invisible Cities explores love and war “with enormous realist dignity” in this collection of “wondrous work from [his] early career” (Kirkus, starred review).   In this short story collection, one of Italy’s greatest storytellers explores the interior lives of characters just as their most cherished illusions of love are suddenly swept away. A soldier is reduced t...

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