Italo Calvino





Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 - 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).

Admired in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Continue Reading »



If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Cosmicomics
Invisible Cities
Why Read the Classics?
The Path to the Spiders' Nests


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