โ Calvino, Italo
๐ Fiction
๐
2017
๐ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Mariner Books
๐ English
โ 202 KB
๐ 2 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Baron in the Trees
โ Scribed by Italo Calvino
- Publisher
- Mariner Books;Harcourt Inc
- Year
- 1959;2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 162 KB
- Edition
- Harvest paperback edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780156106801
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence and even has love affairs. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun.
Language Notes
Text: English, Italian (translation)
About the Author
Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979). Lionised in Britain and America, he was, at the time of his death, the most-translated contemporary Italian writer.
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