

Fantastic Tales
Visionary and Everyday
Author: Italo Calvino
Narrator: Luis Moreno
Unabridged: 23 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/01/2019
Author: Italo Calvino
Narrator: Luis Moreno
Unabridged: 23 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/01/2019
Italo Calvino (1923-1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, the short story collection Cosmicomics, and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. He received numerous awards for his work, including the Riccione Prize and the Saint-Vincent Prize. Lionized in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Italy's master spinner of the wildly inventive, the incomparable Italo Calvino, includes twenty-six of his favorite imaginary tales in this excellent collection. And since each tale is worthy of its own review, I have chosen one of my personal favorites: The Holes in the Mask by French fin-de-siècle......more
While reading the Mammoth anthologies of various generic tales, I had somehow come to understand that anthologies contain mostly 'Meh' and some 'That's Good' stories. I used to think that anthologies are built upon a premise that whatever the editor can get hold of, goes into it without a proper tho......more
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Some brilliant tales in this well-selected anthology. My favourites were those by Dickens, Turgenev, Leskov, de Maupassant, James and Bierce. I had to skip past the Walter Scott and Rudyard Kipling stories, though; Scots English and extensive descriptions of a bridge across the Ganges were definite......more
Neste pequeno registro, vou deixar minhas impressões sobre os melhores contos da coletânea, na minha opinião: 1 - Em terra de cegos (H.G. Wells) Esta é a segunda vez que eu leio esse conto do H.G. Wells. E é incrível o quanto ele fica melhor a cada nova leitura. A gente acaba percebendo outras nuances......more