TODAY ONLY (until 11:59pm PST), the following five classic literary bestsellers from Italian novelist Italo Calvino are priced at just $1.99 each in Kindle format!
“The greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century Guardian It is the refinement, the oddness and the humour of the thoughts he gets which make Calvino a rare pleasure to read; he is a match for Borges as he stealthily patrols the limits of the unthinkable.”
— John Sturrock, New Review
“He will continue to glitter, this strange, lonely prospector in the universe of words, well into the next millennium and after, a master in the empire of the imagination.”
– The Independent
Invisible Cities (4.5/5 stars)
Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times.
“Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant”
-Gore Vidal
Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
Marcovaldo: or the Seasons in the City (4.5/5 stars)
Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer.
Much to the puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams-but the results are never the expected ones.
Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
“Calvino is surely among the handful of living writers that can be called, without hesitation, great. Each book by Calvino is a completely original conception. Marcovaldo is one of the best works of fiction published.”
– The Spectator
Italian Folktales (4.5/5 stars)
Chosen as one of the New York Times’s ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists.
Introduction by the Author; illustrations.
Translated by George Martin. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
The Nonexistent Knight (no reviews yet)
A parody of medieval knighthood told by a nun.
Translated by Archibald Colquhoun.
A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
“Delightful…[The Nonexistent Knight] is a mordantly witty satire on the affairs of modern man…The Cloven Viscount is a dark-hued Gothic gem”
— Helena Cantarella — The New York Times Book Review
The Cloven Count (no reviews yet)
A fantasy about a nobleman bisected into his good and evil halves.
“Executed with brilliance and brio”(Chicago Tribune).
Translated by Archibald Colquhoun.
A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.