wyszukanych pozycji: 89
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Young Love & Other Stories
ISBN: 9781922669278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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96,34 |
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The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9780141394923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'An indispensable writer ... Calvino, possesses the power of seeing into the deepest recesses of human minds and then bringing their dreams to life' Salman Rushdie The difference between life and literature; the good intentions of holiday reading; the avante-garde; the fate of the novel; the fantastical; the art of translation: these are just some of the ideas in The Written World and the Unwritten World. A collection of essays, articles, interviews, correspondence, notes and other occasional pieces on writing, reading and interpreting books, this work gives us new insight into Italo...
'An indispensable writer ... Calvino, possesses the power of seeing into the deepest recesses of human minds and then bringing their dreams to life' S...
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The Narrative of Trajan's Column
ISBN: 9780241472859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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40,22 |
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler: Introduction by Peter Washington
ISBN: 9780679420255 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the book's central character. Based on a witty analogy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book--IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER, by Italo Calvino, of...
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love sto...
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100,19 |
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The Path to the Spiders' Nests
ISBN: 9780141189734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set on the Ligurian coast during World War 2, 'The Path to the Spiders' Nest' tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice who lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at the local bar.
Set on the Ligurian coast during World War 2, 'The Path to the Spiders' Nest' tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice who lives with his sister...
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The Baron in the Trees
ISBN: 9781784874223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. '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, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond, living up in the trees.
'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, the...
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The Cloven Viscount
ISBN: 9780544960060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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
In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo of Terralba is bisected lengthwise by a cannonball. One half of him returns to his feudal estate and takes up a lavishly evil life. Soon the other, virtuous half appears. When the two halves become rivals for the love of the same woman, there's no telling the lengths each will go to win.Now available in an independent volume for the first time, this deliciously bizarre novella is... 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...
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Fantastic Tales: Visionary And Everyday
ISBN: 9780141190129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From tales of fabulous enchantments and supernatural horror to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of 19th century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino.
From tales of fabulous enchantments and supernatural horror to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of 19th century fantastic literature is c...
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65,37 |
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
ISBN: 9780156154550 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A series of short, fantastic narratives inspired by fifteenth-century tarot cards and their archetypical images. Full-color and black-and-white reproductions of tarot cards. Translated by William Weaver.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
A series of short, fantastic narratives inspired by fifteenth-century tarot cards and their archetypical images. Full-color and black-and-white reprod...
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Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 - Updated Edition
ISBN: 9780691139456 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. But he was also an influential literary critic, an important literary editor, and a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal, Leonardo Sciascia, Natalia Ginzburg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Luciano... This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important p... |
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180,44 |
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Escritos seletos - João Calvino (edição de bolso)
ISBN: 9788532661982 / Portugalski / Miękka / 2020 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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111,74 |
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Marcovaldo
ISBN: 9780099428541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. It charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider.
A collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. It charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile count...
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50,28 |
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Neviditelná města
ISBN: 9788073638320 / Czeski / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ve slavné knize Itala Calvina Neviditelná města vypráví Marco Polo na dvoře Kublaj chána postupně o městech, nazvaných exotickými ženskými jmény; vypráví o místech, která navštívil, i těch imaginárních, která nejsou na žádné mapě. Přesně odměřenými slovy popisuje krajiny a města, jejichž znaky a tvary, věže, mosty, domy, ulice jsou nám povědomé, jako by zhmotňovaly naše zkušenosti, poznatky a sny. V Markově podání jsou všechna města variantou téhož modelu – jeho rodných Benátek. Jejich podoba je neomezená, může mít tolik odlišných...
Ve slavné knize Itala Calvina Neviditelná města vypráví Marco Polo na dvoře Kublaj chána postupně o městech, nazvaných exotickými ženským...
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Mr Palomar
ISBN: 9780099430872 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's observations render the world afresh.
Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry...
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Difficult Loves and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781784874841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts.
A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast o...
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Letters 1941-1985
ISBN: 9780141198323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Italo Calvino, Italy's most important postwar novelist, was also an influential literary critic, an important literary editor, and a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal, Michelangelo Antonioni and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The letters included in this selection are filled with insights about Calvino's writing and that of others; about Italian, American, English, and French literature; about literary criticism and literature in general; and about culture and politics.
Italo Calvino, Italy's most important postwar novelist, was also an influential literary critic, an important literary editor, and a masterful letter ...
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100,64 |
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller: A special edition of the classic genre-defying novel
ISBN: 9781784878665 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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85,50 |
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Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings
ISBN: 9780375714269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From one of modern literature s most captivating and elusive masters comes a posthumous volume of thoughtful, elegant, and quick-witted autobiographical writings, all previously unpublished in English. Here is Italo Calvino paying homage to his literary influences and tracing the evolution of his signature style. Here are his reminiscences of Italy s antifascist resistance and the frenzy of politics and ideas of the postwar era.
The longest and most delightfully revealing section of the book is Calvino s diary of his travels in the United States in 1959 and 1960, which show him marveling... From one of modern literature s most captivating and elusive masters comes a posthumous volume of thoughtful, elegant, and quick-witted autobiographic...
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69,36 |
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Under the Jaguar Sun
ISBN: 9780141189727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In these three witty and fantastical stories, Italo Calvino explores the sensory aptitudes of the body in taste, hearing and smell.
In these three witty and fantastical stories, Italo Calvino explores the sensory aptitudes of the body in taste, hearing and smell.
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50,28 |
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Palomar
ISBN: 9788076750234 / Czeski / 2021 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Palomar je poslední větší próza Itala Calvina a i zde se autor rozhodl pro originální experiment. Kapitoly této knihy bychom mohli vnímat jako básně v próze, ale spíše je lze označit za křížence románu nebo básně s esejem. V Calvinově díle má jejich titulní protagonista, pan Palomar, četné předchůdce – rozmanité komentátory a spekulativní talenty. Ti všichni jsou, stejně jako on, velkými pozorovateli světa, protože pozorování věcí je podle Calvina naším základním úkolem. Pan Palomar však chce svět nejen uvidět a pochopit, ale také popsat a...
Palomar je poslední větší próza Itala Calvina a i zde se autor rozhodl pro originální experiment. Kapitoly této knihy bychom mohli vnímat jak...
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