Italo Calvino
26 books, mostly literary fiction, for Recorded Books and BBC Digital Audio, 2008–2025
Italo Calvino (1923–1985) was an Italian novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and editor whose career began with neorealist fiction inspired by the Resistance. He later became known for blending fable, fantasy, science, philosophy, and formal experimentation in works such as Invisible Cities, If on a winter’s night a traveler, and Cosmicomics. He also edited Italian Folktales and worked for the Einaudi publishing house, while contributing extensively to newspapers and literary journals.
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26 audiobooks
Italo Calvino: A BBC Radio Collection
Italo Calvino
December 4, 2025
The Uses of Literature
Italo Calvino
June 4, 2024
The Written World and the Unwritten World
Italo Calvino
January 31, 2023
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
February 10, 2022
Last Comes the Raven
Italo Calvino
September 9, 2021
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Italo Calvino
August 21, 2019
Mr. Palomar
Italo Calvino
July 4, 2019
Numbers in the Dark
Italo Calvino
June 24, 2019
Under the Jaguar Sun
Italo Calvino
June 4, 2019
Italian Folktales
Italo Calvino
April 18, 2019
Fantastic Tales
Italo Calvino
March 11, 2019
The Baron in the Trees
Italo Calvino
August 21, 2018
The Nonexistent Knight
Italo Calvino
August 21, 2018
Into the War
Italo Calvino
February 22, 2018
Difficult Loves
Italo Calvino
December 8, 2017
The Cloven Viscount
Italo Calvino
December 5, 2017
The Road to San Giovanni
Italo Calvino
June 1, 2017
Selected Shorts
Ray Bradbury, Italo Calvino
November 13, 2008
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
Marcovaldo
Italo Calvino
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino
Collection of Sand
Italo Calvino
Hermit in Paris
Italo Calvino
The Path to the Spider's Nests
Italo Calvino
Why Read the Classics?
Italo Calvino
The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino
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