Italian Folk Tales

Italo Calvino
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Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in italian is vast and ranges geographically from corsica and sicily to venice and the alps calvino is himself clearly captivated by the folkloric imagination and communicates this in what is a fascinating and rich addition to folk literature
Genres: FictionShort StoriesItalyFantasyItalian LiteratureFolkloreFairy TalesClassicsMythologyFolk Tales
800 Pages

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