Italo Calvino
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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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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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Vivid but poorly executed
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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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Invisible Cities
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Richard Higgins
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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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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Invisible Cities
- Narrated by: Richard Higgins
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2022-02-10
- 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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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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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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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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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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
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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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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Difficult Loves
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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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The Written World and the Unwritten World
- Essays
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Hermit in Paris
- Autobiographical Writings
- Written by: Martin McLaughlin translator, Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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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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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L' Uccel bel-verde e La Foresta-radice-labirinto
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Martina Pittarello
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Una fiaba molto vicina al forte sentimento ecologico di Calvino ma anche legata alla tradizione, che i bambini non faticheranno certamente a riconoscere ...
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L' Uccel bel-verde e La Foresta-radice-labirinto
- Narrated by: Martina Pittarello
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 2008-08-05
- Language: Italian
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The Nonexistent Knight
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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This witty novella, a picaresque gem brilliantly parodies medieval knighthood. Set in the time of Charlemagne and narrated by a nun with her own secrets to keep, The Nonexistent Knight tells the story of Agilulf, a gleaming white suit of armor with nothing inside it....
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The Nonexistent Knight
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Series: Our Ancestors
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-21
- Language: English
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The Uses of Literature
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself made the selection of pieces to be included in this volume.
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The Uses of Literature
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-04
- Language: English
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Marcovaldo
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Fabrizio Rocchi
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Personaggio buffo e melanconico, Marcovaldo è il protagonista d'una serie di favole moderne, dove Italo Calvino va segnando avvenimenti...
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Marcovaldo
- Narrated by: Fabrizio Rocchi
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2020-09-23
- Language: Italian
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Orlando Furioso di Ludovico Ariosto
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Dario Sansalone
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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"Le donne, i cavallier, l'arme, gli amori" cantati da Italo Calvino, con la sua lettura chiara, appassionata e lucida di un classico della nostra letteratura. Calvino propone una ricca scelta di strofe non rispettando la divisione in canti, ma seguendo le vicende dei singoli personaggi...
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Orlando Furioso di Ludovico Ariosto
- Narrated by: Dario Sansalone
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-11
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Lezioni americane
- Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Gabriele Calindri
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Nate come testi per un ciclo di conferenze da tenere ad Harvard queste lezioni costituiscono l'ultimo insegnamento di un grande maestro...
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Lezioni americane
- Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio
- Narrated by: Gabriele Calindri
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-14
- Language: Italian
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Perché leggere i classici
- Written by: Italo Calvino
- Narrated by: Gabriele Calindri
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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"Il leggere per la prima volta un grande libro in età matura è un piacere straordinario: diverso rispetto a quello d'averlo letto in gioventù...
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Perché leggere i classici
- Narrated by: Gabriele Calindri
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2022-09-21
- Language: Italian
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