If On A Winter S Night A Traveller


If On A Winter S Night A Traveller
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Download If On A Winter S Night A Traveller PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get If On A Winter S Night A Traveller book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page





If On A Winter S Night A Traveler


If On A Winter S Night A Traveler
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Italo Calvino
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2012-12-11

If On A Winter S Night A Traveler written by Italo Calvino and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-11 with Fiction categories.


"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." —from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a feat of striking ingenuity and intelligence, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. Originally published in 1979, Italo Calvino's singular novel crafted a postmodern narrative like never seen before—offering not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together, the stories form a labyrinth of literature known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers pursue the story lines that intrigue them and try to read each other. Deeply profound and surprisingly romantic, this classic is a beautiful meditation on the transformative power of reading and the ways we make meaning in our lives. "Calvino is a wizard...There is no halting [this book's] metamorphoses." —New York Times Review of Books



The Complete Cosmicomics


The Complete Cosmicomics
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Italo Calvino
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2014

The Complete Cosmicomics written by Italo Calvino and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Fiction categories.


Together for the first time, a new translation of the revered, contemporary Italian author's short stories describing the beginning of the universe and other natural phenomena builds creative tales around well-known scientific facts.



Mr Palomar


Mr Palomar
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Italo Calvino
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 1986-09-22

Mr Palomar written by Italo Calvino and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-09-22 with Fiction categories.


A novel of a delightful eccentric on a search for truth, by the renowned author of Invisible Cities. In The New York Times Book Review, the poet Seamus Heaney praised Mr. Palomar as a series of “beautiful, nimble, solitary feats of imagination.” Throughout these twenty-seven intricately structured chapters, the musings of the crusty Mr. Palomar consistently render the world sublime and ridiculous. Like the telescope for which he is named, Mr. Palomar is a natural observer. “It is only after you have come to know the surface of things,” he believes, “that you can venture to seek what is underneath.” Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, or a topless sunbather, he tends to let his meditations stray from the present moment to the great beyond. And though he may fail as an objective spectator, he is the best of company. “Each brief chapter reads like an exploded haiku,” wrote Time Out. A play on a world fragmented by our individual perceptions, this inventive and irresistible novel encapsulates the life’s work of an artist of the highest order, “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (The Guardian).



The L A Quartet


The L A Quartet
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : James Ellroy
language : en
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date : 2019-06-04

The L A Quartet written by James Ellroy and has been published by Everyman's Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-04 with Fiction categories.


Here in one volume is James Ellroy's first great body of work, an epic re-envisioning of postwar Los Angeles--etched in red and black and film-noir grays. The Black Dahlia depicts the secret infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. The Dahlia claims him. She is the deus ex machina of a boomtown in extremis. The cop's rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell. The Big Nowhere blends the crime novel and the political novel. It is winter, 1950--and the L.A. County Grand Jury is out to slam movieland Reds. It's a reverential shuck--and the three cops assigned to the job are out to grab all the glory they can. A series of brutal sex killings intervenes, and the job goes all-the-way bad. L.A. Confidential is the great novel of Los Angeles in the 1950s. Political corruption. Scandal-rag journalism. Bad racial juju and gangland wars. Six local stiffs slaughtered in an all-night hash house. The glorious and overreaching LAPD on an unprecedented scale. White Jazz gives us the tortured confession of a corrupt cop going down for the count. He's a slumlord, a killer, a parasitic exploiter. He's a pawn in a series of police power plays and starting to see that he's being had. He's just met a woman. Thus, he's determined to claw his way out of the horrifying world he's created--and he's determined to tell us everything. The L.A. Quartet is a groundbreaking work of American popular fiction.



Into The War


Into The War
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Italo Calvino
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2014-09-16

Into The War written by Italo Calvino and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-16 with Fiction categories.


Appearing here in its first English translation, Into the War contains three stories drawing on Italo Calvino's memories of the Second World War in Italy. “This book deals both with a transition from adolescence into youth and with a move from peace to war: as for very many other people, for the protagonist of this book ‘entry into life’ and ‘entry into war’ coincide.” — from the Author’s Note These three stories, set during the summer of 1940, draw on Italo Calvino’s memories of his own adolescence during the Second World War, too young to be forced to fight in Mussolini’s army but old enough to be conscripted into the Italian youth brigades. The callow narrator of these tales observes the mounting unease of a city girding itself for war, the looting of an occupied French town, and nighttime revels during a blackout. One of Calvino’s only works of autobiographical fiction, Into the War offers both a glimpse of this writer’s extraordinary life and a distilled dram of his wry, ingenious literary voice. All three stories attest to the potentially magical, transformative space of adolescence . . . The seeds of the later Calvino — the fabulist who worked profound moral and ethical points into his narratives — are all here.” — Joseph Luzzi, Times Literary Supplement



Invisible Cities


Invisible Cities
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Italo Calvino
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2013-08-12

Invisible Cities written by Italo Calvino and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-12 with Fiction categories.


Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.



If On A Winter S Night A Traveller


If On A Winter S Night A Traveller
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Italo Calvino
language : en
Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys
Release Date : 2000*

If On A Winter S Night A Traveller written by Italo Calvino and has been published by Lester & Orpen Dennys this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000* with Fiction categories.


One of the most unusual love affairs in literature, If On A Winter?s Night A Traveller is a captivating game of suspense into which we are irresistibly pulled. (1995)



Hermit In Paris


Hermit In Paris
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Italo Calvino
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2014

Hermit In Paris written by Italo Calvino and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


"The posthumously published collection Hermit in Paris draws together an array of Italo Calvino's autobiographical writings that provide an illuminating and unexpectedly intimate portrait of one of the postwar era's most inventive and fascinating writers. In these pages, Calvino recounts his experiences in Italy's antifascist resistance, pays homage to his influences, traces the evolution of his literary style, and, in one of the book's most humorous and entertaining sections, provides a wry commentary on his travels in the United States in 1959 and 1960"--



The Hundred Brothers


The Hundred Brothers
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Donald Antrim
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2011-06-21

The Hundred Brothers written by Donald Antrim and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-21 with Fiction categories.


With a New Introduction by Jonathan Franzen There's Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Noah; Nick, Dennis, Bertram, Russell, and Virgil. The doctor, the documentary filmmaker, and the sculptor in burning steal; the eldest, the youngest, and the celebrated "perfect" brother, Benedict. In Donald Antrim's mordantly funny novel The Hundred Brothers, our narrator and his colossal fraternity of ninety-eight brothers (one couldn't make it) have assembled in the crumbling library of their family's estate for a little sinister fun. Executed with the invention and intelligence of Barthelme and Pynchon, Antrim's taxonomy of male specimens is in equal proportions disturbing and absurdly hilarious.



The Outlaw Album


The Outlaw Album
DOWNLOAD eBooks

Author : Daniel Woodrell
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date : 2011-10-05

The Outlaw Album written by Daniel Woodrell and has been published by Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-05 with Fiction categories.


Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" American master (Associated Press). Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation-both material and psychological -- motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his wife's pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl, until she reaches her breaking point; a disturbed veteran of Iraq is murdered for his erratic behavior; an outsider's house is set on fire by an angry neighbor. There is also the tenderness and loyalty of the vulnerable in these stories -- between spouses, parents and children, siblings, and comrades in arms-which brings the troubled, sorely tested cast of characters to vivid, relatable life. And, as ever, "the music coming from Woodrell's banjo cannot be confused with the sounds of any other writer"-Donald Harington, Atlanta Journal Constitution "Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original"-Associated Press, American master.