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Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories: SSC

โœ Scribed by Italo Calvino;by Tim Parks (transl)


Book ID
105283999
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
166 KB
Edition
1st American ed
Category
Fiction
City
New York
ISBN
0679743537

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

โœฆ Synopsis


Several dozen stories by the late Italian writer. In Nothing and Not Much, a creature which witnessed the birth of the world describes the event, Henry Ford is an analysis of a captain of capitalism, and in Beheading the Heads, politicians are regularly executed to keep them on their toes.

โœฆ Subjects


Short stories, English -- Translations from Italian


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