To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Virgina Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
In the Ramsays' summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye. The section begins with Mrs Ramsay assuring her son James that they should be able to visit the lighthouse on the next day. This prediction is denied by Mr Ramsay, who voices his certainty that the weather will not be clear, an opinion th ...Show more
The Watcher & Other Stories by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics
In "The Watcher, " a member of the Communist Party is assigned to a polling place in Turin's Hospital for Incurables, where he observes the rejects of humanity and a grotesque parody of the democratic process. "Smog" anticipates a preoccupation with pollution so lunatic that it casts a pall even over th ...Show more
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics
Cosimo di Rondâo, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the forest canopy he hunts, sows crops, plays games with earth-bound friends, fights forest f ...Show more
Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics
A series of short, fantastic narratives inspired by fifteenth-century tarot cards and their archetypical images. Full-color and black-and-white reproductions of tarot cards. Translated by William Weaver.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Mr Palomar
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Category: Classics
Mr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of the famous telescope, is a seeker after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous. Whether contemplating a cheese, a womanâs breasts, or a gorillaâs behavior, he brings us a vision of a world familiar by consensus, fragmented by the bur ...Show more
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics
The definitive edition of the cosmicomics, Italo Calvino's short stories exploring natural phenomena and the origins of the universe. The Complete Cosmicomics brings together all of these enchanting stories--including some never before translated--in one volume for the first time.
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics
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 li ...Show more
The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics
In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bisected lengthwise by a cannonball. One half of him returns to his feudal estate and takes u ...Show more
The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics
An empty suit of armor is the hero in this witty novella, a picaresque gem--now available in an independent volume for the first time--that brilliantly parodies medieval knighthood. Set in the time of Charlemagne and narrated by a nun with her own secrets to keep, The Nonexistent Knight tells the story ...Show more
Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics
Intricate interior lives are brilliantly explored in these short stories, now presented in one definitive collection as Calvino intended them In Difficult Loves, Italy's master storyteller weaves tales in which cherished deceptions and illusions of love--including self-love--are swept away in magical in ...Show more
Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
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Category: Classics
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 lov ...Show more
Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story [Thorsons Classics edition] by RICHARD BACH
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Category: Classics | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The complete edition of a timeless classic, includes the recently rediscovered Part Four and 'Last Words' by Richard Bach.Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. 'Most gulls don't bother to learn mor ...Show more