BOOKS by Italo Calvino

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1	Cosmicomics more books like this by Italo Calvino Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. " Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?" ... see all copies from £3.27! new only from £8.83! \| first editions
2	Invisible Cities more books like this by Italo Calvino 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 marvelous invention like "Invisible Cities" ... see all copies from £2.15! new only from £6.51! \| first editions
3	If on a winter's night a traveler more books like this by Italo Calvino Calvino shows that the novel, far from being a dead form, is capable of endless mutations. If on a winter's night a traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book see all copies from £2.11! new only from £8.96! \| first editions
4	Italian folktales more books like this by Italo Calvino 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 folk literature. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £12.13! \| first editions
5	Mr Palomar more books like this by Italo Calvino Calvino focuses a probing eye on Mr Palomar's attempt to name the parts of his universe; almost as though to define his own existence. Stars and planets, birds, a loaded food counter, all take on an extra reality, as though observed for the first time in wonder by a man previously blind. see all copies from £2.12! new only from £9.87! \| first editions
6	Baron in the trees more books like this by Italo Calvino Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence and even has love affairs. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. see all copies from £3.10! new only from £8.11! \| first editions
7	If on a winter's night a traveller more books like this by Italo Calvino Calvino's masterpiece opens with a scene that's reassuringly commonplace: apparently. Indeed, it's taking place now. A reader goes into a bookshop to buy a book: not any book, but the latest Calvino, the book you are holding in your hands. Or is it? Are you the reader? Is this the book? Beware. All assumptions are dangerous on this most bewitching ... see all copies from £2.07! new only from £6.51! \| first editions
8	Marcovaldo, Or, the Seasons in the City more books like this by Italo Calvino 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. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £9.22! \| first editions
9	Under the jaguar sun more books like this by Italo Calvino In these three witty and fantastical stories, Italo Calvino explores the sensory aptitudes of the body in taste, hearing and smell. 'Each story continues Calvino's lifelong campaign to add more territory to the empire of the imagination; each discloses marvels in regions that we presumed exhausted' - "Time". 'In all three stories, intellectual ... see all copies from £2.19! new only from £8.29! \| first editions
10	The Castle of Crossed Destinies more books like this by Italo Calvino 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. see all copies from £2.08! new only from £8.05! \| first editions
11 view cover	Six memos for the next millennium more books like this by Italo Calvino A series of lectures which Italo Calvino wrote in the final year of his life. For him, the project became an obsession. He intended there to be six lectures - in fact he died before he could complete the sixth and before he could deliver any of them - but the five we do have amount to a message about the making of literature. Drawing on the works ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £9.22! \| first editions
12 view cover	Numbers in the dark and other stories more books like this by Italo Calvino This is a stunning collection of fables and stories written between 1943 and 1958, excellently translated by Tim Parks. 'These are glittering fragments, pendants to Calvino's main opus, whose disturbing beauty they both share and help to interpret' - "Sunday Telegraph". 'The author's command of detail and his fine, inventive imagination, his ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.79! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Nonexistent Knight: &, the Cloven Viscount more books like this by Italo Calvino, J Ferrone (Editor), H Wolff (Editor) Two allegorical, satirical novellas: THE NONEXISTENT KNIGHT is the tale of a suit of armor that performs the duties of a knight better than a human ever could because he can remain emotionally detached; THE CLOVEN VISCOUNT tells the story of a philosophical aristocrat, accidentally split in two by a cannonball, who develops two antithetical ... see all copies from £5.99! new only from £9.82! \| first editions
14 view cover	Why Read the Classics more books like this by Italo Calvino In this collection of thirty-six essays, Calvino explores several original definitions of what makes a Classic, and surveys works that range in time from antiquity and early modern Europe, to the masters of the nineteenth-century novel and his early American mentors, through to his contemporaries. see all copies from £6.78! new only from £7.75! \| first editions
15 view cover	Difficult Loves more books like this by Italo Calvino A collection of stories, many of them, as the title suggests, about love. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.96! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The Uses of Literature more books like this by Italo Calvino, Professor Patrick Creagh (Translator) These essays on literature by Calvino are, like all his work, witty, inventive, ingenious, and valuable. see all copies from £3.75! new only from £10.42! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Road to San Giovanni more books like this by Italo Calvino This autobiography of the Italian writer, Italo Calvino, is separated into a book of five memories: the first, "The Road to San Giovanni", revolves around Calvino's father, the house and town where he grew up; the second explore his childhood experience of film, notably the figure of Clark Gable; the third, his experience of war (he was in the ... see all copies from £5.48! new only from £10.60! \| first editions
18 view cover	Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday more books like this by Italo Calvino (Editor) Compiled by Italo Calvino, this a historical overview of great fantastic literature of the 19th century. Many of the stores are from well-known authors (Sir Walter Scott, Honore de Balzac, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Ivan Turgenev, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and H.G. Wells), ... see all copies from £7.40! new only from £10.77! \| first editions
19 view cover	Six Memos for the Next Millenium more books like this by Italo Calvino, Professor Patrick Creagh (Translator) This collection of five lectures Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death is his legacy to us; the universal values he pinpoints become watchwords for our appreciation of Calvino himself. The five most important qualities for a writer, he says in one essay, are lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £14.29! \| first editions
20 view cover	Marcovaldo more books like this by Italo Calvino 'Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of stories, both melancholy and funny, 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 phenomenon. The reader's heart bleeds for Marcovaldo in his tenacious pursuit of lost ... see all copies from £3.62! new only from £5.70! \| first editions
21 view cover	t zero. more books like this by Italo Calvino A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination. " Calvino does what very few writers can do: he describes imaginary worlds with the most extraordinary precision and beauty" (Gore Vidal, New York Review of Books). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and ... see all copies from £7.03! new only from £7.77! \| first editions
22 view cover	The search for roots : a personal anthology more books like this by Primo Levi "The Search for Roots" is an anthology of writing that Primo Levi considered to be essential reading. Beginning with The Book of Job, that drama of the just oppressed by injustice, these thirty pieces with introduction by Levi, reflect his profound knowledge of science and deep passion for literature, and his survival of Auschwitz, making it a ... see all copies from £5.48! new only from £6.67! \| first editions
23 view cover	Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings more books like this by Italo Calvino After Calvino's death, a cache of autobiographical writings was found, and this selection illuminates many crucial periods of his life, including his adolescence during and after Mussolini, his Paris years, and his travels around the U.S. in the late 1950s. see all copies from £6.82! new only from £10.26! \| first editions
24	Path to the Nest of Spiders more books like this by Italo Calvino This autobiographical, essay-like coming-of-age novel was Calvino's debut, written when he was 23. Set in the 1940s during the war, it tells the tale of a young cobbler's apprentice, his sister (a prostitute), and the band of partisans with whom he becomes involved. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £74.14! \| first editions
25 view cover	The watcher & other stories. more books like this by Italo Calvino Three long stories by Calvino: "The Watcher," "Smog," and "The Argentine Ant." see all copies from £5.65! new only from £8.11! \| first editions

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