Italo Calvino Audio Books

The first complete English-language edition of one of Calvino's important early short-story collections.

Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range.

At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued and which he believed would define literature in the century to come.

Italo Calvino's beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of an ageless guide named Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe.

Italo Calvino's unbounded curiosity and masterly imagination are displayed in peak form in Collection of Sand, the last of his works published during his lifetime.

This posthumously published collection offers a unique, puzzle-like portrait of one of the postwar era's most inventive and mercurial writers.

These intoxicating stories delve down to the core of our senses of taste, hearing, and smell.

Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers.

Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of 19th-century fantastic literature, selected and edited by Italo Calvino, a 20th-century master of the speculative.

A rich collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino's approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature.