Italian Folktales
by Italo Calvino
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Author: Italo CalvinoEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); Italian (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1990-09-28
ISBN: 0151457700
Number of pages: 800
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Book Review: An easy road to the future
Summary: 5 Stars
Some books are best read nightly in small doses. A novel we pick up at any time, bound to the characters and their impulses; poems become a solid mass of emotion as we touch their seemingly amorphous edges. These folktales, retold by Mr. Calvino, allow us to take our world in by stripping down our guard. We laugh at the comical characters and the fanciful predicaments they find themself in, only to have our laughter fulfilled by understanding. These stories are as much about us and our deepest fears, emotions and it is only one by one that we can approach these tales, because otherwise we waste the lessons they teach us. Incredible reading
Summary of Italian Folktales
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
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