Italian Folktales（ISBN=9780156454896）

....[C]olloquial but never corny, plainspoken, economical, wry and flexible and sometimes stunningly lyrical. (The New York Times Books of the Century )

Chosen as one of the New York Times’s ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists. Introduction by the Author; illustrations. Translated by George Martin. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979). Lionised in Britain and America, he was, at the time of his death, the most-translated contemporary Italian writer.

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1.DauntlessLittleJohn3
2.TheManWreathedinSeaweed
3.TheShipwithThreeDecks
4.TheManWhoCameOutOnlyatN
5.AndSeven!
6.Body-without-Soul
7.MoneyCanDoEverything
8.TheLittleShepherd
9.SilverNose
10.TheCount'sBeard
11.TheLittleGirlSoldwiththePears
12.TheSnake
13.TheThreeCastles
14.ThePrinceWhoMarriedaFrog
15.TheParrot
16.TheTwelveOxen48
17.CrackandCrook
18.TheCanaryPrince
19.KingCrin
20.ThoseStubbornSouls,theBiellese
21.ThePotofMarjoram
22.TheBilliardsPlayer
23.AnimalSpeech
24.TheThreeCottages
25.ThePeasantAstrologer

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