Italian folktales
Calvino, Italo2009
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There was no Italian equivalent to the Brothers Grimm until Italo Calvino collected these folktales from his homeland which transport the reader into a world of adventurers, tricksters, kings, peasants and saints.
Main title:
Italian folktales / selected and retold by Italo Calvino ; translated by George Martin.
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London : Penguin, 2000.
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xxxii, 763 p. ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
This translation originally published: U.S.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovick, 1980; London: Penguin, 1982.Includes bibliographical references (p. 759-763).Translated from the Italian.
ISBN:
9780141181349 (pbk)
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EnglishItalian
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BRN:
513582