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Italian Folktales
  • Published: 7 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141975023
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 800

Italian Folktales

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A collection of folktales to transport the reader into a world of adventurers, tricksters, kings, peasants and saints

Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Calvino is himself clearly captivated by the folkloric imagination and communicates this in what is a fascinating and rich addition to folk literature.
  • Published: 7 November 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141975023
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 800
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About the author

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (1923-1985), one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985.
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Also by Italo Calvino

The Baron in the Trees
Cosmicomics
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
The Narrative of Trajan's Column
Last Comes the Raven
The Distance of the Moon
The Written World and the Unwritten World
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