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1	If on a winter's night a traveler more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist 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. see all copies from £4.92! new only from £7.38! \| first editions
2	If on a winter's night a traveller more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist 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 £1.29! new only from £6.11! \| first editions
3	The Island of the Day Before more books like this by Umberto Eco add to wishlist A veteran of the Thirty Years War, Roberto della Griva is shipwrecked in the South Seas on a secret mission to the Antipodes. Roberto is saved by the appearance of an abandoned ship, the Daphne, which has enough stores to sustain him. The time aboard the Daphne affords Roberto opportunity to reflect. As he looks back on his loves and education, he ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Adventures of Pinocchio more books like this by Carlo Collodi add to wishlist The classic children's story, written by Collodi (Carlo Lorenzini) in 1883. It tells the story of Pinocchio, a puppet come to life, whose various adventures serve to teach him right from wrong. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.49! \| first editions
5	Cosmicomics more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist 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 £5.70! new only from £8.02! \| first editions
6	Man more books like this by Oriana Fallaci add to wishlist see all copies from £3.19! new only from £141.73! \| first editions
7	Mr Palomar more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist In this brilliantly imagined and obsessive novel, Calvino's hero, like the telescope he is named after, is dedicated to minutely observing everything around him, no matter how ordinary. see all copies from £1.89! new only from £6.65! \| first editions
8	Letter to a Child Never Born more books like this by Oriana Fallaci add to wishlist see all copies from £4.30! new only from £53.84! \| first editions
9	Fontamara more books like this by Ignazio Silone add to wishlist see all copies from £4.80! new only from £13.01! \| first editions
10	Arturo's island more books like this by Elsa Morante add to wishlist ON A SMALL ISLAND in the Tyrrhenian Sea there lives a boy as innocent as a seabird. Arturo's mother is dead; his father away. Black-clad women care for him, give him the freedom to come and go as he likes. Then the father returns with a new wife, Nunziata, a girl barely older than Arturo. At first hatred and contempt are all the boy feels for his ... see all copies from £20.43! first editions
11	The Road to San Giovanni more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist Five "memory exercises," written between 1962 and 1977, that illuminate Calvino's life: his childhood home, his cinema-crazed adolescence, his experiences in World War II, an interlude in Paris, and a final essay, "From the Opaque", which sets out his beliefs about writing. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
12	The Tartar Steppe more books like this by Dino Buzzati add to wishlist A young officer is stationed in a remote area and wishes only to escape. Gradually, however, he falls in love with the place, which is both mountainous and desert-like, and spends most of his life there. Written in 1938, Dino Buzzati's deliberately uneventful allegory owes debts to Kafka as well as to Calvino. see all copies from £1.43! new only from £6.44! \| first editions
13 view cover	Inshallah more books like this by Oriana Fallaci add to wishlist This novel opens in Beirut on the night of the terrifying assault on the US Marine barracks. It is told from the viewpoint of young Italian soldiers in the international peace-keeping force stationed in that strife-torn city, the Arabs and the women in their lives. By the author of "A Man". see all copies from £1.66! new only from £84.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Unspeakable Women: Selected Short Stories Written by Italian Women During Fascism more books like this by Robin Wynette Pickering-Iazzi add to wishlist Despite the misogynist ideology of Italian Fascism and contrary to claims of most postwar literary historians, in the 1920s and 1930s, women authors enjoyed wide publication and critical recognition in Italy. These 16 stories, for example, all appeared first on the cultural pages of important Italian newspapers. Three are by the 1926 Nobel Prize ... see all copies from £3.79! new only from £10.11! \| first editions
15 view cover	A life more books like this by Italo Svevo add to wishlist Reprinted with a new cover in B format, "A Life" is the gruelling tale of the frustrated existence of a bank clerk with a poetic soul. The artistic aspirations of the protagonist and the emptiness of his daily life become tragic in the great divide between what he wants and what he actually has and gets. Alfonso the bank clerk wants to be a poet ... see all copies from £1.54! new only from £7.42! \| first editions
16 view cover	As a man grows older more books like this by Italo Svevo add to wishlist This 1898 novel is one of Svevo's comic tales about a writer down on his luck who falls in love with a whore who torments him to the point where he becomes senile at the tender age of 35. Originally titled in English EMILIO'S CARNIVAL, the novel was translated for many years as AS A MAN GROWS OLDER, the title James Joyce--Svevo's close friend- ... see all copies from £2.60! new only from £6.60! \| first editions
17	Don Camillo's dilemma more books like this by Giovanni Guareschi add to wishlist see all copies from £4.31! first editions
18 view cover	Under the jaguar sun more books like this by Italo Calvino add to wishlist 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 £2.16! new only from £7.56! \| first editions
19 view cover	New Italian Women: A Collection of Short Fiction more books like this by Grazia Deledda, Dacia Maraini, Martha King (Editor) add to wishlist "New Italian Women" is a collection of twenty-four stories by seventeen contemporary Italian women celebrates a high level of accomplishment that draws on a tradition of women's literature in Italy, but also marks a new and exciting vitality in Italian fiction. Writing of various experiences and from different regions, these women all create with ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.01!
20 view cover	The betrothed more books like this by Alessandro Manzoni add to wishlist New edition of one of the great historical novels of the nineteenth century. Set in Lombardy during the wars, famine and plague of 1628-39, THE BETROTHED tells the dramatic story of two young lovers. Following them through exile, plague and inner suffering, it shows great richness of characterization and a profound interest in the workings of ... see all copies from £1.55! new only from £9.35! \| signed copies \| first editions
21	Fontamara more books like this by Eric Mosbacher (Translator), Ignazio Silone, Irving Howe (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from £5.26!
22 view cover	The Inland Sea: Fiction more books like this by Steven Varni add to wishlist A novel in 12 stories about an Italian-American family in California. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	Tales of Madness: A Selection from Luigi Pirandello's Short Stories for a Year more books like this by Adolph Caso (Editor), Professor Luigi Pirandello (Translator), Giovanni Bussino (Translator) add to wishlist This book constitutes a unique selection from that monumental corpus, will introduce to the English reading public some of Pirandello's most moving novelle. In each of them one can sense the deep compassion the author must have felt for his characters, generally portrayed as disaffected victims of society, destiny, or their own self deceptions. see all copies from £9.51! new only from £9.51! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel more books like this by Peter Bondanella (Editor), Andrea Ciccarelli (Editor) add to wishlist The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, ... see all copies from £5.56! new only from £7.42! \| first editions
25	The Dust Roads of Monferrato more books like this by Rosetta Loy add to wishlist A story of three generations of a farming family in Northern Italy during the 19th century, their lives reflecting and symbolising the social and historic developments of their country. This novel has won several awards, including the Super Campiello and the Viareggio. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.54! \| first editions

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