The Complete Cosmicomics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complete Cosmicomics write by Italo Calvino. This book was released on 2014-09-16. The Complete Cosmicomics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The complete collection of “nimble and often hilarious” short stories exploring the cosmos by the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities (Colin Dwyer, NPR). Italo Calvino’s beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of a “cosmic know-it-all” with the unpronounceable name of Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Relating complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world, they are an indelible and delightful literary achievement. Originally published in Italian in three separate volumes—including the Asti d’Appello Prize-winning first volume, Cosmicomics—these thirty-four dazzling stories are collected here in one definitive English-language anthology. “Trying to describe such a diverse and entertaining mix, I have to admit, just as Calvino does so often, that my words fail here, too. There’s no way I—or anyone, really—can muster enough of them to quite capture the magic of these stories . . . Read this book, please.” —Colin Dwyer, NPR
Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Invisible Cities write by Italo Calvino. This book was released on 2013-08-12. Invisible Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
Cosmicomics
Cosmicomics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cosmicomics write by Italo Calvino. This book was released on 1968. Cosmicomics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. “Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?” Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Under the Jaguar Sun
Under the Jaguar Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Under the Jaguar Sun write by Italo Calvino. This book was released on 1988. Under the Jaguar Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of Italy's greatest and most popular writers offers three witty, fantastical stories, each dominated by one of three senses--taste, hearing, or smell.
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
The Castle of Crossed Destinies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Castle of Crossed Destinies write by Italo Calvino. This book was released on 1979. The Castle of Crossed Destinies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their tales. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal, and chaotic history of all human consciousness."--Goodreads
