Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Why read the classics? Why read the classics? Italo Calvino Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection o… OL10423748W
Le città invisibili Le città invisibili Italo Calvino "Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venet… OL15297W
Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Italo Calvino L'impresa di cercare di scrivere romanzi 'apocrifi', cioè che immagino siano scritti da un autore che non sono io e che non esiste, l'ho portata fino in fondo nel mio libro 'Se una notte d'inverno un… OL15321W
Numbers in the Dark Numbers in the Dark Italo Calvino For the first time in paperback--a volume of thirty-seven diabolically inventive stories, fables, and "impossible interviews" from one of the great fantasists of the 20th century, displaying the full… OL15329W
The nonexistent knight & The cloven viscount The nonexistent knight & The cloven viscount Italo Calvino Recounts the chivalrous exploits of an empty suit of armor and the separate halves of a nobleman who has been bisected by a cannon ball. OL15336W
Le cosmicomiche Le cosmicomiche Italo Calvino Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. "Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where… OL15344W
I nostri antenati I nostri antenati Italo Calvino *I nostri antenati* (1952/1959) è una trilogia fantastica ed allegorica sull'uomo contemporaneo, costituita dai romanzi *Il visconte dimezzato* (1952), *Il barone rampante* (1957) e *Il cavaliere ine… OL15347W
Detective stories Detective stories Tony Fletcher,E. C. Bentley,Arthur Conan Doyle,Dorothy L. Sayers,Ellery Queen,Raymond M. Smullyan,Philip Pullman,Damon Runyon,Andrew Vachss,Agatha Christie,Michael Underwood,Isaac Asimov,Italo Calvino,Stephen Leacock,Erich Kästner [Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The little mystery / E.C. Bentley The adventure of the Egyptian tomb / Agatha Christie Emil and t… OL15825926W
Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces Victor Hugo,Sophocles,Heinrich Heine,Charles Baudelaire,Colette,Albert Camus,Blaise Pascal,Πλάτων,Pak, Tu-jin,Henrik Ibsen,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Isak Dinesen,Pär Lagerkvist,Buson Yosa,Yehuda Amichai,Wang, Wei,Rabindranath Tagore,Tu Fu,Tsurayuki Ki,Όμηρος,Ovid,Jorge Luis Borges,Антон Павлович Чехов,Giovanni Boccaccio,Александр Исаевич Солженицын,Thomas Mann,Niccolò Machiavelli,François Villon,Jonathan Swift,川端康成,William Wordsworth,Chrétien de Troyes,Николай Васильевич Гоголь,Julio Cortázar,Heinrich Böll,Burton Beers,Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoy,Doris Lessing,Günter Grass,Po Chu-i,Dante Alighieri,Guy de Maupassant,Stanisław Lem,Jean de La Fontaine,Yoshida Kenko,Federico García Lorca,Derek Walcott,Luigi Pirandello,Franz Kafka,Christopher Marlowe,Lao-Tze,Bessie Head,Confucius,Boris Leonidovich Pasternak,Gabriela Mistral,Marie de France,Paul Valéry,Italo Calvino,Ōgai Mōri,Czesław Miłosz,Arthur Rimbaud,Gabriel García Márquez,Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin,Ch'ien T'ao,Najib Mahfouz,Toshiyori Minamoto,Margaret Atwood,Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko,Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan,Kobayashi, Hideo,Komachi Ono,Octavio Paz,Pierre de Ronsard,Manuel Rojas,Wole Soyinka,Rainer Maria Rilke,John Milton,Primo Levi,Lu Hsun,Sei Shōnagon,Rubén Darío,Hitomaro Kakinomoto,Pablo Neruda,Anna Ahkmatova,Basho,To Li Chien,Pliny,Li Po,Nguyen Thi Vinh,Virgil,Andrei Vosnesensky,Omar Khayyam,William Shakespeare 9-10th grade OL18460630W
Cloven Viscount Cloven Viscount Italo Calvino 115 pages ; 21 cm OL20126899W
Nonexistent Knight Nonexistent Knight Italo Calvino 138 pages ; 20 cm OL20207674W
Difficult Loves Difficult Loves Italo Calvino ix, 307 pages ; 21 cm OL20207677W
Difficult Loves; Smog; A Plunge Into Real Estate Difficult Loves; Smog; A Plunge Into Real Estate Italo Calvino Tales of love and loneliness in which the author blends reality and illusion. “The quirkiness and grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work,...and a certain lovable nuttiness m… OL20668693W
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." —from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's … OL21784995W
The Greatest Cat Stories Ever Told The Greatest Cat Stories Ever Told Karel Čapek,P. G. Wodehouse,Charles Dudley Warner,W. W. Jacobs,Mark Twain,Антон Павлович Чехов,Dorothy L. Sayers,Sylvia Townsend Warner,Lewis Carroll,Rudyard Kipling,Charles Elliott,Edgar Allan Poe,Patricia Highsmith,Harry Allen Smith,Honoré de Balzac,Ursula K. Le Guin,John Coleman Adams,Émile Zola,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,Elliott, Charles,Don Marquis,Italo Calvino,Angela Carter,Théophile Gautier,Saki,Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,Robertson Davies,Jean Stafford,Eleanor Clark,Damon Runyon,Matrix Resurrections2021 P E L I C U L A completa (en Línea) Español Latiño,Soseki Natsurne LILLIAN CATS' PARADISE TOM QUARTZ MING'S BIGGEST PREY THE CHESHIRE CAT THE GARDEN OF STUBBORN CATS THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF RHUBARB THE CYPRIAN CAT A CAT, A MAN, AND TWO WOMEN PUSS-IN… OL8348077W