Cosmicomics
  • Published: 25 August 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241627921
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

Cosmicomics

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Hardback
29 Nov 2022
EBook
25 Aug 2022
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith

Twelve enchanting and fantastical stories about the evolution of the universe from the giant of Italian literature, Italo Calvino. His characters - whether human, dinosaur or mollusc - disport themselves among galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrogen atoms - and have time for a love life.
  • Published: 25 August 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241627921
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
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About the author

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.

Also by Italo Calvino

Last Comes the Raven
The Narrative of Trajan's Column
The Baron in the Trees
The Distance of the Moon
The Written World and the Unwritten World
Letters 1941-1985
Letters 1941-1985
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Praise for Cosmicomics

This is classic Calvino, making you think and laugh at the same time

John Self

If you have never read Cosmicomics, you have before you the most joyful reading experience of your life

Salman Rushdie

A landmark in fiction, the work of a master

Ursula K Le Guin