Browse by category
Adam, One Afternoon by Italo Calvino
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics
This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story "The Argentine Ant" moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
$14.99 AUD
Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You ...Show more
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
$36.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Modern Classics
A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino's incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous masterwork.You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replac ...Show more
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
$14.99 AUD
Category: Vintage Classics | 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
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
$29.95 AUD
$35.00 (14% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Contains stories which range geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps.
Last Comes the Raven by Italo Calvino; Archibald Colquhoun (Translator); Ann Goldstein (Translator); Ben Johnson (Translator); William Weaver (Translator); Peggy Wright (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuous and unnerving. Calvino's war-torn Italy is vivid, intense, almost hyper-real. A trio of greedy burglars rob a pastry shop, a boy offers a girl presents of toads and insects from the garden ...Show more
Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. It charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider.
Mr.Palomar by Italo Calvino
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's observations render the world afresh.
Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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 departure for Calvino's classic triptych ...Show more
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
A gorgeous new edition of a playful, romantic fable by one of the twentieth century's master storytellers.From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond. He walks through paths made from the twisted branches of olive, makes his bed in ...Show more
The Narrative of Trajan's Column by Italo Calvino
$9.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished' Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on what the things we leave behind - whether waxworks or ancient graffiti, enigmatic maps or a crumbling Roman column - tell us about the gr ...Show more
The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction by Italo Calvino
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A true celebration of literature in its many forms, The Written World and the Unwritten Worldbrings together essays, articles, interviews, forewords and notes from the inimitable mind of Italo Calvino. The fate of the novel, reading and translation are just some of the subjects examined in this remarkab ...Show more
0 - 11 of 12