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This collection of diabolically brilliant stories, fables, and "impossible interviews" confirms Calvino's stature as one of the essential writers of the 20th century. Written between 1943 and 1984, these several dozen short stories range over a panoply of concerns--politics, the nature of power, the quest for the truth, and the elusive possiblity of human connection.
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Italo Calvino (1923-1985) was born in Cuba, and grew up in San Remo, Italy. He was a member of the partisan movement during the German occupation of northern Italy in World War II. The novel that resulted from that experience, published in English as The Path to the Nest of Spiders, won widespread acclaim. His other works of fiction include the Baron in the Trees, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Cosmicomics, Difficult Loves, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, Mr. Palomar, The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount, t zero, Under the Jaguar Sun, and The Watcher and Other Stories. His works of nonfiction include Six Memos for the Next Millennium and The Uses of Literature, collections of literary essays, and the anthology Italian Folktales.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian
Original Language: Italian
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- PublisherRandom House Value Publishing
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0517199009
- ISBN 13 9780517199008
- BindingHardcover
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NUMBERS IN THE DARK AND OTHER STORIES
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NEW YORK NY PANTHEON BOOKS PUB 1995.
(1997)
ISBN 10: 0517199009
ISBN 13: 9780517199008
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Book Description FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. TRANSLATED BY FROM THE ITALIAN BY TIM PARKS BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. HAS A SHORT TEAR AT THE TOP FRONT FORE-EDGE CORNER, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER. Seller Inventory # 009219
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