Numbers in the Dark

Italo Calvino

first published 1995 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009

For the first time in paperback--a volume of thirty-seven diabolically inventive stories, fables, and "impossible interviews" from one of the great fantasists of the 20th century, displaying the full breadth of his vision and wit. Written between 1943 and 1984 and masterfully translated by Tim Parks, the fictions in Numbers in the Dark display all of Calvino's dazzling gifts: whimsy and horror, exuberance of style, a...

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Tim Parks 1 printing we hold · 1996 · Vintage

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Numbers in the Dark edition · 2009 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307539007
Numbers in the Dark hardcover · 1997 · Random House Value Publishing · 9780517199008
Numbers in the Dark paperback · 1996 · Vintage · 288 pages · 9780679743538
Numbers in the dark edition · 1995 · Pantheon Books · 276 pages

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