Michael Wood is professor of English and comparative literature at Princeton University. His most recent books are
Yeats and Violence and
A Very Short Introduction to Film.
Martin Mc Laughlin is the Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford. He is the translator of Calvino”s
Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings,
Into the War, and
Why Read the Classics?, which won the John Florio Prize for translation. He is also cotranslator of Calvino”s
The Complete Cosmicomics.
29 Ebooks by Martin McLaughlin
Italo Calvino: Italo Calvino
The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth century This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the …
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€20.99
Patrizia Sambuco: Transmissions of Memory
Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture discusses cultural productsfilms, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and s …
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€114.36
Martin McLaughlin: Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy: a Festschrift for John Woodhouse
‘Critical interest in biography and autobiography has never been higher. However, while life-writing flourishes in the UK, in Italy it is a less prominent genre. The twelve essays collected here are …
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€51.36
Martin McLaughlin: Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy: a Festschrift for John Woodhouse
‘Critical interest in biography and autobiography has never been higher. However, while life-writing flourishes in the UK, in Italy it is a less prominent genre. The twelve essays collected here are …
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€51.58
Martin McLaughlin: Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism
‘In this volume a team of experts in various fields considers the impact of Italian politics and culture on British life from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth centur …
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€79.42
Martin McLaughlin: Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism
‘In this volume a team of experts in various fields considers the impact of Italian politics and culture on British life from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth centur …
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€78.81
Martin McLaughlin: Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), who died at the stake, is one of the best-known symbols of anti-establishment thought. The theme of this volume, which is offered as a collection of essays to honour the d …
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€50.97
Martin McLaughlin: Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), who died at the stake, is one of the best-known symbols of anti-establishment thought. The theme of this volume, which is offered as a collection of essays to honour the d …
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€51.54
Italo Calvino: Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino’s enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated b …
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€8.99
Italo Calvino: Hermit in Paris
Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer’s life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of …
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€9.49
Italo Calvino: Why Read the Classics?
Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number …
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€9.49
Italo Calvino: Into the War
Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino’s own experiences as a teenager. In the t …
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€8.99
Italo Calvino: Why Read the Classics?
This collection of essays by the acclaimed author of Cosmicomics offers a fascinating, personal journey through some of literature’s greatest works. Classics, according to Italo Calvino, …
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€23.05
Italo Calvino: Into The War
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 …
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€7.71
Italo Calvino: Hermit in Paris
This collection of journals, interviews and travelogues by the author of Invisible Cities has "something fascinating on every page" (The Guardian, UK).This posthumously published collection …
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€22.81
Italo Calvino: Complete Cosmicomics
The complete collection of “nimble and often hilarious” short stories exploring the cosmos by the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities (Colin Dwyer, NPR). Italo Calvino’s bel …
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€3.84
Italo Calvino: Collection of Sand
This “brilliant collection of essays” and travelogues by the celebrated author of Invisible Cities “may change the way you see the world around you” (The Guardian, U …
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€19.25
Umberto Eco: On Literature
A wide-ranging collection of essays on the importance and meaning of literature by “one of the most influential thinkers of our time” (Los Angeles Times). In this collection of ess …
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€3.84
Colin Burrow & Stephen J. Harrison: Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature
This volume shows the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of the little-studied phenomenon of multi-tier intertextuality, whether as ‘linear’ window reference – where author C simultaneously i …
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€129.95
Martin McLaughlin & Javier (The University of Oxford, UK) Munoz-Basols: Ideology, Censorship and Translation
This volume invites us to revisit ideology, censorship and translation by adopting a variety of perspectives. It presents case studies and theoretical analyses from different chronological periods an …
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€57.66
Martin McLaughlin & Javier (The University of Oxford, UK) Munoz-Basols: Ideology, Censorship and Translation
This volume invites us to revisit ideology, censorship and translation by adopting a variety of perspectives. It presents case studies and theoretical analyses from different chronological periods an …
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€57.36
Italo Calvino: Numbers in the Dark
Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino’s extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty a …
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€8.99
Italo Calvino: Road to San Giovanni
A collection of five autobiographical essays by one of the masters of Italian literature In these five elegant autobiographical meditations Italo Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward chi …
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€9.49
Italo Calvino: Path to the Spiders’ Nests
Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler’s assistant, both arrogant and insecure who – while the Second World War rages – sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town – partic …
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€8.99
Italo Calvino: Under the Jaguar Sun
A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able …
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€8.99
Italo Calvino: Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1985-86, but they were left unfinished at his death. The surviving drafts explore of the concepts of Lightness, Quickn …
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€9.49
Martin McLaughlin: Leon Battista Alberti
The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti’s major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architecture Leon Battista Alberti (1404–14 …
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€36.99
Colin Burrow & Stephen J. Harrison: Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature
This volume shows the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of the little-studied phenomenon of multi-tier intertextuality, whether as ‘linear’ window reference – where author C simultaneously i …
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€141.74
Martin McLaughlin: Italo Calvino
This first study in English of the complete writings of Italo Calvino (1923-85) offers new interpretations of Calvino’s main works, taking into account some important unpublished material, and analys …
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€47.04
