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The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
A gorgeous new edition of a playful, romantic fable by one of the twentieth century's master storytellers.From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond. He walks through paths made from the twisted branches of olive, makes his bed in ...Show more
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
$36.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
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 cards to tell one another how they came to be there.
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino; Martin McLaughlin (translator); Tim Parks (translator); William Weaver (translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"We were peering into this darkness, criss-crossed with voices, when the change took place: the only real, great change I've ever happened to witness, and compared to it the rest is nothing." -- from The Complete Cosmicomics Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed ...Show more
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Before the universe began to expand, when all of everything existed in a single point in space, Qfwfq was there. And afterwards - through the millennia, across galaxies and in different, shifting forms - he persisted. He has some stories to tell. This is a collection of enchanting stories, in revised tr ...Show more
The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino
$2.50 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern
Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful short stories taken from Calvino's Cosmicomics.
The Hermit In Paris:Autobiographical Writings by Italo Calvino
$12.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A volume of posthumously collected personal writings of the author, from the early 1950s to his last interview, completed just before his sudden death in 1985. Apart from shedding light on his own formative experiences and evolution as an author, this work also examines the major events of twentieth cen ...Show more
The Nonexistent Knight and the Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino; J. Ferrone (Editor); H. Wolff (Editor)
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two novellas: the first, a parody of medieval knighthood told by a nun; the second, a fantasy about a nobleman bisected into his good and evil halves. "Bravura pieces... executed with brilliance and brio"(Chicago Tribune). Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
The Queen's Necklace by Italo Calvino
$5.00 AUD
Category: Classics
'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 finger'. In these two stories from an inventive, comic master of the form, old friends and friendly rivals Pietro and Tommasso disco ...Show more
The Watcher & Other Stories by Italo Calvino
$31.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction by Italo Calvino
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A true celebration of literature in its many forms, The Written World and the Unwritten Worldbrings together essays, articles, interviews, forewords and notes from the inimitable mind of Italo Calvino. The fate of the novel, reading and translation are just some of the subjects examined in this remarkab ...Show more
Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A couple on an epicurean 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 me ...Show more