Calvino, Italo

Translation of: Fiabe italiane. An anthology of 200 Italian folktales.

Presents two stories by Italian author Italo Calvino, including "The Nonexistent Knight," a parody of medieval knighthood; and "The Cloven Viscount," in which the two halves of a nobleman who has been bisected by a cannon ball, become rivals for the love of the same woman.

Two readers, a man and a woman, pursue story lines that intrigue them, in a novel about reading novels.

A series of stories by Italian author Italo Calvino in which explorer Marco Polo diverts the aging Kublai Kahn from thoughts about the impending demise of his empire by describing the many amazing cities he has seen on his travels--diverse places that are, in the end, all the same.

Young Italian nobelman, Cosimo, rebels against the authority of his parents in the late eighteenth century by climbing into the trees where he proceeds to make a very full life for himself.

Literary essays that will make readers view the old classics in a dazzling new light.

Relates the inner dialogs, reflections, and musings of Mr. Palomar.

Translation of Fiabe italiane. An anthology of 200 Italian folktales.

Collection of several dozen short fiction stories covering a variety of themes and concerns, written between 1943 and 1984, and translated from their original Italian.