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Italo Calvino

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Book Description
It is difficult to find a modern author writing in Italian more revered than Italo Calvino. Most critics choose to view his fantasies not as escapes from reality but as alternate ways to perceive it. Works studied in this text include Invisible Cities, The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, and The Nonexistent Knight.

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Book Information
PublisherChelsea House Publishers
BindingLibrary Binding (4 editions)
Reading LevelAges 9-12
# of Pages100
ISBN-100791068242
ISBN-13978-0791068243
Publication Date01/2002
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About Dave Kress (Author, Editor) : Dave Kress is a published author and an editor of young adult books. Some of the published credits of Dave Kress include Thomas Pynchon (Bloom's Major Novelists) and Italo Calvino (Bloom's Major Short... more
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About Harold Bloom (Author, Editor) : Harold Bloom (b. July 11, 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations stood at a low ebb, has... more
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