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The Complete Cosmicomics

The Complete Cosmicomics
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2014-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0544231937

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The complete collection of “nimble and often hilarious” short stories exploring the cosmos by the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities (Colin Dwyer, NPR). Italo Calvino’s beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of a “cosmic know-it-all” with the unpronounceable name of Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Relating complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world, they are an indelible and delightful literary achievement. Originally published in Italian in three separate volumes—including the Asti d’Appello Prize-winning first volume, Cosmicomics—these thirty-four dazzling stories are collected here in one definitive English-language anthology. “Trying to describe such a diverse and entertaining mix, I have to admit, just as Calvino does so often, that my words fail here, too. There’s no way I—or anyone, really—can muster enough of them to quite capture the magic of these stories . . . Read this book, please.” —Colin Dwyer, NPR


Invisible Cities

Invisible Cities
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2013-08-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 054413320X

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Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “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.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.


Under the Jaguar Sun

Under the Jaguar Sun
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1988
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780156927949

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One of Italy's greatest and most popular writers offers three witty, fantastical stories, each dominated by one of three senses--taste, hearing, or smell.


Cosmicomics

Cosmicomics
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1968
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780156226004

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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?” Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book


If On A Winter's Night A Traveler

If On A Winter's Night A Traveler
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2012-12-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0544133404

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"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." —from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a feat of striking ingenuity and intelligence, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. Originally published in 1979, Italo Calvino's singular novel crafted a postmodern narrative like never seen before—offering not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together, the stories form a labyrinth of literature known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers pursue the story lines that intrigue them and try to read each other. Deeply profound and surprisingly romantic, this classic is a beautiful meditation on the transformative power of reading and the ways we make meaning in our lives. "Calvino is a wizard...There is no halting [this book's] metamorphoses." —New York Times Review of Books


Why Read the Classics?

Why Read the Classics?
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2014-12-16
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0544146379

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A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.


The Castle of Crossed Destinies

The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1979
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780156154550

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"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 tales. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal, and chaotic history of all human consciousness."--Goodreads


Difficult Loves

Difficult Loves
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1984
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780156260558

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In a collection of stories written during the 1940s and 1950s, the author captures moments of revelation in the lives of ordinary people, instants blending recognition and alarm as deceptions and illusions are laid bare.


Hermit in Paris

Hermit in Paris
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0544146697

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A posthumously published collection of Italo Calvino's autobiographical writings recounting his experiences in Italy's antifascist resistance, paying homage to his influences, tracing the evolution of his literary style, and commenting wryly on his travels in the United States.


Collection of Sand

Collection of Sand
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0544146468

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Published for the first time in English, a final collection of essays by the renowned fabulist writer tours the visual world through explorations of subjects ranging from cuneiform and antique maps to Mexican temples and Japanese gardens.