Invisible Cities

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  • Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo--Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. Soon it becomes clear that each of these fantastic places is really the same place.
Invisible Cities
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In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo--Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. Soon it becomes clear that each of these fantastic places is really the same place.
Description
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo--Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. Soon it becomes clear that each of these fantastic places is really the same place.
ISBN
9780156453806
Publication Date
May 1, 1978
Binding
Paperback
Item Condition
New
Language
English
Pages
176
Series
Harvest/HBJ Book
Series Number
Array
Keywords
Fiction | Classics; Fiction | Historical | General; Fiction | Action & Adventure; Fiction | Magical Realism; Fiction | Short Stories (single author); Fiction | Literary; Fiction | Fantasy | Historical; Fiction | Romance | Historical - 20th Century; Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Fiction | Psychological; Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical

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