Italo Calvino
Why Read the Classics?
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 13
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but 10, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Vivid but poorly executed
- By Anonymous User on 2024-01-07
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2017-07-31
- Language: English
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Italian Folktales
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 28 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story2.5 out of 5 stars 2
Chosen as one of the New York Times's 10 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....
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Italian Folktales
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 28 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-18
- Language: English
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Why Read the Classics?
- Written by: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection of Calvino's literary criticism available in English....
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Why Read the Classics?
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-11
- Language: English
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Invisible Cities
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Richard Higgins
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
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....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mesmerizingly beautiful, philosophical and comforting
- By Alicia Gradson on 2024-09-20
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Invisible Cities
- Narrated by: Richard Higgins
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2022-02-10
- Language: English
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The Complete Cosmicomics
- Translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, & William Weaver
- Written by: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator, Tim Parks - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant....
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The Complete Cosmicomics
- Translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, & William Weaver
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-07
- Language: English
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The Baron in the Trees
- Written by: Italo Calvino, Ana Goldstein - translator
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Cosimo di Rondo, a young Italian nobleman of the 18th century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. From his perch in the trees, Cosimo sees the Age of Enlightenment pass by and a new century dawn....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A timeless classic
- By Christopher Barkman on 2021-05-17
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The Baron in the Trees
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Series: Our Ancestors
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-21
- Language: English
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Marcovaldo
- or The Seasons in the City (Translated by William Weaver)
- Written by: Italo Calvino, William Weaver - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressible dreamer and an inveterate schemer....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun and Playful
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-10-06
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Marcovaldo
- or The Seasons in the City (Translated by William Weaver)
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-17
- Language: English
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
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 stories....
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2019-08-21
- Language: English
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Mr. Palomar
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Mr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of the famous telescope, is a seeker after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous. Whether contemplating a cheese, a woman's breasts, or a gorilla's behavior, he brings us a vision of a world familiar by consensus....
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Mr. Palomar
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2019-07-04
- Language: English
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Il barone rampante
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Dario Sansalone
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Il narratore ripercorre la lunga vicenda del fratello, Cosimo di Rondò, vissuto nella seconda metà del XVIII secolo a Ombrosa, in Liguria...
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Il barone rampante
- Narrated by: Dario Sansalone
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2020-07-29
- Language: Italian
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The Cloven Viscount
- Translated by Archibald Colquhoun
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures.....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good writer, okay story
- By Mohammed on 2019-10-22
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The Cloven Viscount
- Translated by Archibald Colquhoun
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Series: Our Ancestors
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2017-12-05
- Language: English
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
- Written by: Italo Calvino, Geoffrey Brock - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued and which he believed would define literature in the century to come....
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2017-08-04
- Language: English
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Difficult Loves
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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Intricate interior lives are brilliantly explored in these short stories, now presented in one definitive collection as Calvino intended them....
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Difficult Loves
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2017-12-08
- Language: English
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Le città invisibili
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Dario Sansalone
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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"Che cos'è oggi la città per noi? Penso d'aver scritto qualcosa come un ultimo poema d'amore alle città, nel momento in cui diventa sempre più difficile viverle come città."(Da una conferenza di Calvino tenuta a New York nel 1983)
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Le città invisibili
- Narrated by: Dario Sansalone
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2022-01-26
- Language: Italian
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Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Fabrizio Rocchi
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Un viaggiatore, una piccola stazione, una valigia da consegnare a una misteriosa persona... Da questa premessa si possono snodare innumerevoli vicende, ma sono dieci quelle che l'autore propone in questo sorprendente e godibilissimo romanzo. "È un romanzo sul piacere di leggere romanzi...
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Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
- Narrated by: Fabrizio Rocchi
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2021-03-31
- Language: Italian
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Hermit in Paris
- Autobiographical Writings
- Written by: Martin McLaughlin translator, Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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This posthumously published collection offers a unique, puzzle-like portrait of one of the postwar era's most inventive and mercurial writers....
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Hermit in Paris
- Autobiographical Writings
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2018-02-22
- Language: English
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Fantastic Tales
- Visionary and Everyday
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 23 hrs and 39 mins
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Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of 19th-century fantastic literature, selected and edited by Italo Calvino, a 20th-century master of the speculative....
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Fantastic Tales
- Visionary and Everyday
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 23 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2019-03-11
- Language: English
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Selected Shorts
- Readers & Writers
- Written by: Evelyn Waugh, Molly Giles, Ray Bradbury, and others
- Narrated by: Tony Roberts, John Shea, Leonard Nimoy, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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A boon for booklovers, this audio set features funny, fantastical and poignant stories about people with unique and passionate connections to the written word....
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Selected Shorts
- Readers & Writers
- Narrated by: Tony Roberts, John Shea, Leonard Nimoy, Blair Brown, Rochelle Oliver
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2008-11-13
- Language: English
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The Path to the Spider's Nests
- Written by: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II, lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses the adult patrons. After a mishap with a Nazi soldier, Pin becomes involved with a band of partisans....
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The Path to the Spider's Nests
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-21
- Language: English
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The Written World and the Unwritten World
- Essays
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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A rich collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino’s approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature....
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The Written World and the Unwritten World
- Essays
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2023-01-31
- Language: English
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