Baron in the Trees, Paperback - Italo Calvino

'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman RushdieFrom the age of twelve, ...

Reducere. Concentrandu-se asupra unor subiecte precum dragostea, alienarea si sincopele care apar in comunicare, Iubiri dificile urmareste aventurile individ...

A collection of short stories covering the length of the author's writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. It inclu...

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 she...

"Why Read the Classics?" is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an...

A memoir from the American singer-songwriter legend Carly Simon, who famously married James Taylor and has had a career spanning four decades. Reco...

Reducere. In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are ch...

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Concentrandu-se asupra unor subiecte precum dragostea, alienarea si sincopele care apar in comunicare, Iubiri dificile urmareste aventurile individ...

An anthropological adventure portraying the tragic potential of culture collision which marked the debut from the author who would go on to write A...

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Reducere. Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer. Much to th...

Reducere. "One of the most rigorously presented and beautifully illustrated critical testaments in all of literature."--Boston Globe "A brilliant, original a...

A Best Book of the Year The Wall Street Journal * Publishers Weekly * Huffington Post * Cosmopolitan A Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle ...

Reducere. Iubiri dificile - Italo Calvino

'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time-C...

A collection of stories. Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, it explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war a...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Provocarea labirintului. Eseuri - Italo Calvino

„Lectiile americane readuc la suprafata, dupa o lunga sedimentare in memoria unui cititor-scriitor, un intens, pasionat, constant dialog cu proprii...

The author was a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This book offer...

A couple on a journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precarious...

Reducere. Can spiders fly?Are dire wolves real?Do chameleons practice magic?Tim Flannery has the answers. In this informed and accessible book, he introduces...

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Seria Povesti Italiene de la Corint Junior ale lui Italo Calvino aduce titlul Povesti pentru fetite.In aceasta mini-antologie incantatoare, renumit...

Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to ...

With encyclopedic knowledge, this title writes about such diverse subjects as the imaginative pleasures of maps, bizarre exhibitions and the earlie...

Includes five autobiographical meditations that delves into the author's past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obse...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Italienische u. Sardische Sprache, Literatur, Landeskunde, Note: 2, 0, Ludwig-Maximilia...

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Desene naravase - Italo Calvino

Reducere. In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures...