Italian Folktales

✍ Scribed by Italo Calvino

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 1992;1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 506 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

One of the New York Timess Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are a treasure (Los Angeles Times).

Filled with kings and peasants, saints and ogresas well as some quite extraordinary plants and animalsthese two hundred tales bring to life Italys folklore, sometimes with earthy humor, sometimes with noble mystery, and sometimes with the playfulness of sheer nonsense.

Selected and retold by one of the countrys greatest literary icons, this collection stands with the finest folktale collections anywhere (The New York Times Book Review).

For readers of any age... A masterwork. The Wall Street Journal

A magic book, and a classic to boot. Time

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Review

....[C]olloquial but never corny, plainspoken, economical, wry and flexible and sometimes stunningly lyrical. (The New York Times Books of the Century )

Language Notes

Text: English, Italian (translation)