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Last Comes the Raven (Paperback)
Italo Calvino; Translated by Archibald Colquhoun, Peggy Wright, Ann Goldstein, Ben Johnson, …
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These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian
countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuous and
unnerving. Calvino's war-torn Italy is vivid, intense, almost
hyper-real. A trio of greedy burglars rob a pastry shop, a boy
offers a girl presents of toads and insects from the garden, a
wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock
him. In every story he reveals the hidden meaning beneath the
surface of everyday life, and the ludicrousness of war. Some
stories from Last Comes the Raven have been previously available in
the collection Adam, One Afternoon. This new expanded collection
includes several stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein and is
an important addition to Calvino's legacy. 'In Last Comes the
Raven, a collection of early stories, we find the man behind the
magician' New Yorker
The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story
of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the
approaching forces of democracy and revolution. 'There is a great
feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it' Rick Stein In
the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina,
still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people,
including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and
squalor. Then comes Garibaldi's landing in Sicily and the Prince
must decide whether to resist the forces of change or come to terms
with them. 'Every once in a while, like certain golden moments of
happiness, infinitely memorable, one stumbles on a book or a
writer, and the impact is like an indelible mark. Lampedusa's The
Leopard, his only novel, and a masterpiece, is such a work'
Independent INCLUDES RECENTLY DISCOVERED NEW MATERIAL 'Perhaps the
greatest novel of the century L.P. Hartley 'The poetry of
Lampedusa's novel flows into the Sicilian countryside...a work of
great artistry' Peter Ackroyd
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The Day of the Owl (Paperback)
Leonardo Sciascia; Introduction by George Scialabba; Translated by Archibald Colquhoun, Anthony Oliver
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A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a
small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is
new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects
the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against
an apparently unbreachable wall of silence. A surprise turn puts
him on the track of a series of nasty crimes. But all the while
Bellodi's investigation is being carefully monitored by a host of
observers, near and far. They share a single concern: to keep the
truth from coming out.
This short, beautifully paced novel is a mesmerizing description of
the Mafia at work.
Title: Amongst the Shans ... With ... illustrations, and an
historical sketch of the Shans by Holt S. Hallett ... Preceded by
an introduction on the cradle of the Shan race by Terrien de
Lacouperie.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL
HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library
digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material
that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include
health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology,
culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and
social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Colquhoun, Archibald;
Hallett, Holt; 1885. lv. 392 p.; 8 . 10057.df.12.
Introduction by David Gilmour; Translation by Archibald Colquhoun
Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and
insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and
tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town -
particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the
town's 'mattress'. Among those his sister sleeps with is a German
sailor, and Pin dares to steal his pistol, hiding it among the
spiders' nests in an act of rebellion that entangles him in the
adults' war. Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers,
has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple,
fable-like stories. He was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San
Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His
major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972),
and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in
1985. Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Fiat-Serena
Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford where he
is a Fellow of Magdalen College. In addition to his published
academic works he is the English translator of Umberto Eco and
Italo Calvino among many others.
Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. These three vivid images are the points of departure for Calvino's classic triptych of moral tales, now published in one volume and all displaying the exuberant talent of a master storyteller.
This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
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A Biography Of The Author Of The Betrothed, I Promessi Sposi.
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The Viceroys (Paperback)
Federico Roberto; Foreword by Franco Moretti; Translated by Archibald Colquhoun
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A lost literary classic, written in 1894, The Viceroys is one of
the most acclaimed masterworks of Italian realism. The novel
follows three generations of the aristocratic Uzeda family as it
struggles to hold on to power in the face of the cataclysmic
changes rocking Sicily. As Garibaldi's triumphs move Italy toward
unification, the Uzedas try every means to retain their position.
De Roberto's satirical and mordant pen depicts a cast of
upper-class schemers, headed by the old matriarch, Donna Teresa,
and exemplified by her arrogant and totally unscrupulous son,
Consalvo, who rises to political eminence through lip service,
double-dealing, and hypocrisy. The Viceroys is a vast dramatic
panorama: a new world fighting to shrug off the viciousness and
iniquities of the old.
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