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Prestige, epic, contemporary and cool.
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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About the book
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers, Mariner Books, Penguin Classics
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781846141652
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- Fiction, science fiction, collections & anthologies
- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Science Fiction / Short Stories
- Manners and customs
- Fiction
- Social life and customs
- Fiction, science fiction, short stories
- Calvino, Italo -- Translations into English
- Cosmology -- Fiction
- Italian literature
Italo Calvino (Santiago de Las Vegas de La Habana, 15 ottobre 1923 – Siena, 19 settembre 1985) è stato uno scrittore e paroliere italiano. Intellettuale di grande impegno politico, civile e culturale, è stato uno dei narratori italiani più importanti del secondo Novecento. I numerosi campi d'interesse toccati dal suo percorso letterario sono meditati e raccontati attraverso capolavori quali la trilogia de *I nostri antenati, Marcovaldo, Le cosmicomiche, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore,* uniti dal filo conduttore della riflessione sulla storia e la società contemporanea. ---------- Italo Calvino (Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalis
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