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Author: Italo SvevoBinding: HardbackPublished: Secker & Warburg, London, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsItalo Svevo, a master of psychological fiction, presents Short Sentimental Journey...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the fog of middle-aged longing and quiet desperation, As A Man Grows Older chronicles the ill-fated romantic obsession of Emilio Brentani,...

Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually...

The first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century Italo Calvino, Italy's most important postwar novelist, was also an influential...

'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell 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....

A collection of folktales to transport the reader into a world of adventurers, tricksters, kings, peasants and saints Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is...

Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and...

The book titled Album by the author Italo Calvino. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A classic of Italian literature, this epic and unforgettable novel recounts one man's long and turbulent life in revolutionary Italy At the age of eighty-three and nearing death, Carlo Altoviti...

A triptych of allegorical fables told in Calvino's ingenious genre-defying style. Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of...