Italo Calvino

Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an i...

At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qua...

In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a c...

An empty suit of armor is the hero in this witty novella, a picaresque gem-now available ...

"The thought . . . called up the flavors of an elaborate and bold cuisine, bent on making...

Mr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of the famous telescope, is a seeker after ...

"In each other's presence we became mute, would walk in silence side by side along the ro...

"This book deals both with a transition from adolescence into youth and with a move from ...

A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of s...