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Cosmicomics (Little Clothbound Classics) by Italo Calvino
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Twelve enchanting and fantastical stories about the evolution of the universe from the giant of Italian literature, Italo Cal ...Show more
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
$15.00 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: IV
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 ...Show more
Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . . . Distance has been the warp that supports the weft of every love story." -- from Numbers in the Dark Written between 1943 and 1984, the stories in Numbers in the Dark span the career of one of fiction's moder ...Show more
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' - Salman RushdieFrom the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond, living up in the trees. He walks through paths made from the t ...Show more
The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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.
Why Read The Classics? by Italo Calvino
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"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 is an ...Show more
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