Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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  • An Atlas of the Imaginary World
  • Gorgeous prose

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Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book)
Italo Calvino
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0156453800
Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book)
If on a winter's night a traveler
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • A fabulous fabulist for the patient traveler
  • Read it for the thrill, not for the bragging rights
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  • Pretentious but trite
  • Too little plot; too many gimmicks

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If on a winter's night a traveler
Italo Calvino
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0156439611
If on a winter's night a traveler
Cosmicomics
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Of fairy dust and cosmic equations
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  • Scientific Musings, Delightful Comedy, and Pure Fantasy - Imaginative Tales by a Master
  • ingenuous creativity, but bland at times
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Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0156226006
Cosmicomics
The Baron in the Trees
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • one of calvino's best
  • Up in the trees
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  • A kingdom among the foliage

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The Baron in the Trees
Italo Calvino
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Baron in the Trees
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana (New York Review Books Classics)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • a philosophical whodunit
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  • A wonderfully baroque novel.
  • A Feast of Languages, but also the Ultimate Whodunit

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That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana (New York Review Books Classics)
Carlo Emilio Gadda
Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1590172221
Release Date: 2007-02-27
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Difficult Loves
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Laudable observations of life
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Difficult Loves
Italo Calvino
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
ProductGroup: Book
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Italo Calvino
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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 Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino
Manufacturer: Vintage
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Under the Jaguar Sun
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Under the Jaguar Sun
Italo Calvino
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Under the Jaguar Sun
t zero (Harbrace Paperbound Library, Hpl 70)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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t zero (Harbrace Paperbound Library, Hpl 70)
Italo Calvino
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Science Fiction Writers

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Science Fiction Writers

  1. Alfred Coppel
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  3. Gregory Kern