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Italo Calvino
Adam, One Afternoon [EPUB ebook]

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An acclaimed collection of enchanting, comic and clever tales from the Italian master This collection of playful, deadly febles is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story The Argentine Ant moved Gore Vidal to declare ‘if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better’.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 192 ● ISBN 9781446414392 ● Translator Archibald Colquhoun & Peggy Wright ● Publisher Random House ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2756982 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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