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  1. Italo Calvino (Inbunden)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780691139456 - UTGIVEN: 201307

    This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a winter's night a travele[...]

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    från 294.00 kr
  2. Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 (Häftad)

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    Italo Calvino, Michael Wood, Martin McLaughlin

    ISBN: 9780691162430 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05

    This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as "Cosmicomics," "Invisible Cities," and "If on a Winter's Night a Tr[...]

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    från 165.00 kr
  3. Mr.Palomar (Storpocket)

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    Italo Calvino, Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780099430872 - UTGIVEN: 199407

    Mr. Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or[...]

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    från 91.00 kr
  4. Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Storpocket)

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    Italo Calvino, Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780141189697 - UTGIVEN: 200905

    Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1985-86, but they were left unfinished at his death. The surviving drafts explore of the concepts of lightness, quickness, multiplicity, exactitude and visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth) in serious yet playful e[...]

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    från 128.00 kr
  5. Fantastic Tales (Storpocket)

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    Italo Calvino, Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780141190129 - UTGIVEN: 2009-05

    From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. These mysterious and macabre tales include Hoffmann's nightmarish "The Sandman", Poe's terrifying "The Tell-Tale Heart" [...]

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    från 144.00 kr
  6. The Path to the Spiders' Nests: Revised Edition (Häftad)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780060956585 - UTGIVEN: 2000-05

    Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses[...]

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    från 109.00 kr
  7. The Castle of Crossed Destinies (Storpocket)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780099268055 - UTGIVEN: 199710

    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 [...]

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    från 138.00 kr
  8. Adam, One Afternoon (Häftad)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780099287032 - UTGIVEN: 1992-08

    A collection of fables. It is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. It features a comic story "The Argentine Ant".[...]

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    från 120.00 kr
  9. Marcovaldo (Storpocket)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780099428541 - UTGIVEN: 2001-03

    A collection of stories about an Italian peasant's struggle to reconcile country habits with urban life. Oblivious to the garish attractions of the town, Marcovaldo is the attentive recorder of natural phenomena but, at every turn, the city is there to thwart his inclinations.[...]

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    från 94.00 kr
  10. Invisible Cities (Häftad)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780099429838 - UTGIVEN: 199710

    Each time he returns from his travels, Marco Polo is invited by Kublai Khan to describe the cities he has visited. The conqueror and the explorer exchange visions: for Kublai Khan the world is constantly expanding; for Marco Polo - who has seen so much of it - it is an ever-diminishing place.[...]

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    från 98.00 kr
  11. Our Ancestors (Häftad)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780099430865 - UTGIVEN: 199202

    Reissue. A triptych of novels in one volume. Viscount Medardo is bisected by a cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, aged 12, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; and Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour.[...]

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    från 148.00 kr
  12. Difficult Loves (Storpocket)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780099430889 - UTGIVEN: 199309

    A translated collection of early stories by Calvino. The earliest were written in 1945 when he was 22, and the latest date from the 50s when he was in his early 30s. Calvino's novels include "Invisible Cities" and "The Castle of Crossed Destinies".[...]

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    från 105.00 kr
  13. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Storpocket)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780099430896 - UTGIVEN: 200204

    A postmodern novel which combines a love and a detective story with a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in an allegory of reading. Two readers attempt to finish the same book, but are comically and repeatedly frustrated.[...]

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    från 100.00 kr
  14. Italian Folk Tales (Storpocket)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780141181349 - UTGIVEN: 2000-02

    Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Calvino is himself clearly captivated by the folkloric imagination and communicates this in what is a fascinating and rich addition to f[...]

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    från 193.00 kr
  15. The Complete Cosmicomics (Häftad)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780141189680 - UTGIVEN: 201005

    This title enchants stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. They disport themselves among galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrog[...]

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    från 123.00 kr
  16. Why Read the Classics? (Storpocket)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780141189703 - UTGIVEN: 200905

    "Why Read the Classics?" is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say they are 'rereading', not 'reading'), this i[...]

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    från 109.00 kr
  17. The Road to San Giovanni (Storpocket)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780141189710 - UTGIVEN: 200905

    In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social contracts, language and sensations associated [...]

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    från 121.00 kr
  18. Under the Jaguar Sun (Storpocket)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780141189727 - UTGIVEN: 200905

    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 woul[...]

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    från 119.00 kr
  19. The Path to the Spiders' Nests (Storpocket)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780141189734 - UTGIVEN: 2009-05

    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 'mattress'. Among those his sister sle[...]

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    från 120.00 kr
  20. Numbers in the Dark (Storpocket)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780141189741 - UTGIVEN: 2009-05

    "Numbers in the Dark" is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-ca[...]

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    från 118.00 kr
  21. Hermit in Paris (Häftad)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780141189758 - UTGIVEN: 201101

    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 thi[...]

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    från 128.00 kr
  22. Into the War (Häftad)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780141193731 - UTGIVEN: 201111

    Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the title story, "Into the War", we are given an insight into what life was really like for those too youn[...]

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    från 126.00 kr
  23. The Queen's Necklace (Häftad)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780141195834 - UTGIVEN: 201102

    '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 d[...]

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    från 0.00 kr
  24. Letters 1941-1985 (Häftad)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780141198323 - UTGIVEN: 2014-06

    The extraordinary letters of Italo Calvino, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, translated into English for the first time by Martin McLaughlin, with an introduction by Michael Wood. Italo Calvino, novelist, literary critic and editor, was also a masterful letter writer whose correspo[...]

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    från 149.00 kr
  25. The Baron in the Trees (Häftad)

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    Italo Calvino

    ISBN: 9780156106801 - UTGIVEN: 197703

    A young, eighteenth-century Italian nobleman defies parental authority by adopting an exclusively arboreal life, watching from his perch in the trees the passing of the Enlightenment and participating in its various delights and duties[...]

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    från 0.00 kr