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Road to San Giovanni
From the Italian author, personal essays featuring his relationship with his father, his love of movies, and fighting fascism during World War II. “In each other’s presence we …
Cloven Viscount
When a nobleman is split in two, his separate halves pursue different adventures in a fantastically macabre tale by the author of Invisible Cities. It is the seventeenth century, …
Why Read the Classics?
This collection of essays by the acclaimed author of Cosmicomics offers a fascinating, personal journey through some of literature’s greatest works. Classics, according to Italo …
Nonexistent Knight
An empty suit of armor is the hero of this witty novella set in the Early Middle Ages by the acclaimed author of If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. As a paladin in the court of …
Fantastic Tales
The acclaimed author presents “a rich and wide-ranging anthology” of 19th century fantasy and horror stories—with an original introduction for each (Library Journal). Vampires, …
Collection of Sand
This “brilliant collection of essays” and travelogues by the celebrated author of Invisible Cities “may change the way you see the world around you” (The Guardian, UK). Italo …
Difficult Loves
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 …
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
The celebrated author of Cosmicomics and Invisible Cities shares his “brilliant, original approach to literature” in these late-career lectures (San Francisco Chronicle). At the …
Italian Folktales
One of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are “a treasure” (Los Angeles Times). Filled with kings …
Watcher and Other Stories
This collection of three long stories by the author of Cosmicomics "e;demonstrates clearly his talent for transforming the mundane into the marvelous"e; (The New York …
Marcovaldo
A charming portrait of one man’s dreams and schemes, by “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (The Guardian). In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo …
Hermit in Paris
This collection of journals, interviews and travelogues by the author of Invisible Cities has "e;something fascinating on every page"e; (The Guardian, UK).This posthumously …