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(0)Italo Calvino
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works of enduring cultural value, but also something much more personal: talismans, touchstones, books through which we understand our world and ourselves. In Why Read the Classics?, Calvino shares over thirty of his classics in essays of warmth, humor, and striking insight. He ranges from Homer to Jorge Luis Borges, from the Persian folklorist Nezami to Charles Dickens. Whether tracing the links...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1978, ©1974
Language
English
Description
"Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times."--Publisher description at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/har041/77016002.html.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 138
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Based on a analogy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, this book is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book are constantly and comically frustrated.
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Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
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Description
"A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination" --
6) Boccaccio 70
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Italiano
Description
Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide it from her employer; plus they need a room of their own. A billboard of Anita Ekberg provocatively selling milk gives a prudish crusader for public decency more than he can handle. The wife of a count whose escapades with call girls make the front page of the papers decides to work to prove her independence, but what is she qualified...