by Italo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun
Read from December 30, 2013 to January 13, 2014 Of all the new authors I started reading in the past ten years, Italo Calvino is, undoubtedly, the most innovative when it comes to serious fiction. His novels never fail to amaze me either by their plots, the use of language, or their message. The Ba...
Oddly enough, I think this would be a really fun book to read aloud to a precocious child at bedtime.
mp3 workadayRead By: Peter GilCopyright: 1959Number of MP3s: 7Total Duration: 7:42:48blurb - Italo Calvino's "The Baron in the Trees" is the story of an Italian boy who leaves his aristocratic childhood home in favor of the expanse of adjoining trees that cover the surrounding town and countryside a...
One of the things I love about reading Calvino is that (so far) every story has been different, every literary experiment has yielded insights that are unexpected, witty, and touching.I found this book no different, though clearly not as deep and brilliant as If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, it i...
Calvino's most memorable book. A baroque (in setting, if not in style) masterpiece, but approachable by anyone. One of my favorite books of all time.
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