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Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
$32.00 AUD
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
Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino
$34.00 AUD
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
Fantastic Tales : Visionary and Everyday by Italo (EDT) Calvino
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Garden Stories by Diana Secker-Tesdell (Editor); J. G. Ballard (Contribution by); Italo Calvino (Contribution by); Doris Lessing (Contribution by); Katherine Mansfield (Contribution by); Aoko Matsuda (Contribution by); Virginia Woolf (Contribution by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
Spectacular gardens are viewed from the perspective of a snail in Virginia Woolf's 'Kew Gardens' and from that of a sheltered teenage girl in Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party'. The family of Doris Lessing's 'Flavours of Exile' haul succulent vegetables and fruits from the rich African soil, and C ...Show more
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
$34.00 AUD
Category: Classics
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the book's central character. Based on a witty analogy ...Show more
Into the War by Italo Calvino
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This book deals both with a transition from adolescence into youth and with a move from peace to war: as for very many other people, for the protagonist of this book entry into life and entry into war coincide. from the Author s Note These three stories, set during the summer of 1940, draw on Italo Calv ...Show more
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: IV
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: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a ...Show more
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
$29.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. from "Invisible Cities" In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo Mongol emperor and Vene ...Show more
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
$59.00 AUD
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
Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
$27.00 AUD
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