Télécharger le livre :  The Complete Cosmicomics
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Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver in Penguin Modern...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-09-01

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Télécharger le livre :  The Queen's Necklace
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'The inspector ordered that the bird be searched.One of the agents stalled saying it made him feel sick, and after some fierce pecking another withdrew sucking a bleeding finger.'In these two stories from an inventive, comic master of the form, old friends and friendly...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-02-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Literature Machine
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'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time-Calvino is not only constantly and supremely intelligent; he is constantly and supremely faithful to his narrative...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-01-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Adam, One Afternoon
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An acclaimed collection of enchanting, comic and clever tales from the Italian masterThis collection of playful, deadly febles is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story The Argentine Ant moved Gore Vidal to...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-01-11

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Télécharger le livre :  The Castle Of Crossed Destinies
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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 stories. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Télécharger le livre :  If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
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A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Marcovaldo
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Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Difficult Loves and Other Stories
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A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts. As well as the thirteen tales...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Our Ancestors
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Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. These three vivid images are the points of...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Mr Palomar
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Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Invisible Cities
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Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail - each with a woman's name... 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...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-14

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