Italo Calvino
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Invisible Cities [50th Anniversary Edition]
$25.99 Add to cartIllustrated 50th Anniversary Edition – With an introduction by #1 New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Anthony Doerr
A beautiful new illustrated hardcover in the Mariner Classics
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063417626
- Language: English
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The Nonexistent Knight and the Cloven Viscount
$16.95 Add to cart- Series: Harbrace Paperbound Library
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0156659751
- Language: English
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The Path to the Spiders’ Nests: Revised Edition
$17.00 Add to cartItalo 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 l
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 30 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956585
- Language: English
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The Uses of Literature
$20.99 Add to cartIn these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself mad… [more below]
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0156932504
- Language: English
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Last Comes the Raven: And Other Stories
$15.99 Add to cartThe first complete English-language edition of one of Calvino’s important early short story collections
Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection–one- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0544146700
- Language: English
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Marcovaldo: Or the Seasons in the City
$18.99 Add to cartA charming portrait of one man’s dreams and schemes, by “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (Guardian).
In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrou… [more below]
- Series: Helen and Kurt Wolff Books
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 121
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0156572044
- Language: English
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Why Read the Classics?
$15.99 Add to cartA posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino’s invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0544146379
- Language: English
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: Introduction by Peter Washington
$26.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver
Italo Calvino’s masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader o
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0679420258
- Language: English
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Mr. Palomar
$14.95 Add to cartMr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of the famous telescope, is a seeker after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous. Whether contemplating a cheese, a woman’s breasts, or… [more below]
- Series: Helen and Kurt Wolff Books
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0156627809
- Language: English
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The Nonexistent Knight
$18.99 Add to cartAn empty suit of armor is the hero in this witty novella, a picaresque gem–now available in an independent volume for the first time–that brilliantly parodies medieval knighthood.
Set in the time o- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0544959108
- Language: English
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The Cloven Viscount
$18.99 Add to cartIn this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures
In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0544960068
- Language: English
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
$15.99 Add to cartItalo Calvino’s brilliant reflection on what makes great literature, from the classics to more contemporary works, punctuated with personal details about Calvino’s own writing processes.
At the time of… [more below]
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0544146670
- Language: English
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The Written World and the Unwritten World: Essays
$18.99 Add to cart“Wonderful… Calvino’s prose is sparkling as ever, and he approaches ideas with wit and an open mind, always ready to challenge a stale point of view. This anthology will delight Calvino fans old and
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0544146999
- Language: English
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The Baron in the Trees
$18.99 Add to cartA landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms
Cosimo di Rond?, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century,- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0544959116
- Language: English
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Difficult Loves
$18.99 Add to cartA “wondrous work from the early career of one of the world’s greatest writers” (Kirkus Reviews), masterfully translated from Italian into English by Ann Goldstein Intricate interior lives are brillian
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 29, 2017
- ISBN10: 0544959124
- Language: English
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The Complete Cosmicomics
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive edition of the cosmicomics, Italo Calvino’s short stories explore natural phenomena and the origins of the universe. The Complete Cosmicomics brings together all of these enchanting sto… [more below]
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0544577876
- Language: English
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
$18.99 Add to cart“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 stu
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 20, 1982
- ISBN10: 0156439611
- Language: English
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Invisible Cities
$18.99 Add to cartItalo 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
- Series: Harvest/HBJ Book
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 03, 1978
- ISBN10: 0156453800
- Language: English
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Italian Folktales
$32.50 Add to cartOne of the New York Times‘s Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are “a treasure” (Los Angeles Times).
Filled with kings and peasants, saints a- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 15, 1992
- ISBN10: 0156454890
- Language: English
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The Watcher and Other Stories
$13.95 Add to cartThe three long stories in this volume show the range and virtuosity of Italy’s most imaginative writer. “Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us” … [more below]
- Series: Harbrace Paperbound Library
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 15, 2011
- ISBN10: 0156949520
- Language: English
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