Italo Calvino
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 138
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Based on a analogy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, this book is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book are constantly and comically frustrated.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1977, c1959.
Language
English
Description
A young, eighteenth-century Italian nobleman defies parental authority by adopting an exclusively arboreal life, watching from his perch in the trees the passing of the Enlightenment and participating in its various delights and duties.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author of Invisible Cities explores love and war “with enormous realist dignity” in this collection of “wondrous work from [his] early career” (Kirkus, starred review).
In this short story collection, one of Italy’s greatest storytellers explores the interior lives of characters just as their most cherished illusions of love are suddenly swept away. A soldier is...
In this short story collection, one of Italy’s greatest storytellers explores the interior lives of characters just as their most cherished illusions of love are suddenly swept away. A soldier is...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1980.
Language
English
Description
Chosen as one of the New York Times's ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists. Introduction by the Author; illustrations. Translated by George Martin. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
Several dozen stories by the late Italian writer. In Nothing and Not Much, a creature which witnessed the birth of the world describes the event, Henry Ford is an analysis of a captain of capitalism, and in Beheading the Heads, politicians are regularly executed to keep them on their toes.
8) Cosmicomics
Author
Series
Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 69
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1976, c1968.
Language
English
Description
Twelve stories by the Italian author employ the history of science and the poetic imagination to ring changes on the theme and activity of creation
Author
Publisher
Grove
Pub. Date
c1989.
Language
English
Description
"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind," writes Ursula Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that change in the decade since the publication of her last nonfiction collection, The Language of the Night. And what a mind strong, supple, disciplined, playful, ranging over the whole field of its concerns, from modern literature to menopause, from utopian...
Publisher
NoShame Films
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Four satires on morality and hypocrisy.
First act, Renzo & Luciana: Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room of their own.
Second act, Temptations of Dr. Antonio: The story of a meddlesome moralistwho sees sin and obsenity in everything, especially a billboard featuring a provocative woman.
Third act, The job: A rich German countess discovers her Italian nobleman husband has been...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University, and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. He has written more than 20 books of literary criticism. From a lifetime of writing and teaching about literature, this great scholar exhorts readers to consider the pleasures and benefits of reading well. Beginning with a basic question, "Why read?" Bloom offers his thoughts...