Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories: SSC
โ 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.
โฆ 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.
โฆ Subjects
Short stories, English -- Translations from Italian
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