Invisible cities
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Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory.
"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else." In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories 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. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else." In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories 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. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
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9780156453806
9780544133204
9780544133204
Lexile measure:
1290L
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"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else." In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories 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. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else." In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories 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. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
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Explorers -- Italy -- Fiction
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Polo, Marco, -- 1254-1323 -- Fiction
Polo, Marco, -- 1254-1323? -- Fiction
Printing -- Specimens
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Electronic books
Explorers -- China -- Fiction
Explorers -- Italy -- Fiction
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Polo, Marco, -- 1254-1323 -- Fiction
Polo, Marco, -- 1254-1323? -- Fiction
Printing -- Specimens
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Invisible Cities
Invisible cities / Italo Calvino ; translated from Italian and introduced by William Weaver ; with twelve drawings of sites and artifacts by Wayne Thiebaud
Invisible cities / Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver
Invisible cities [electronic resource] Calvino, Italo.
Invisible cities / Italo Calvino ; translated from Italian and introduced by William Weaver ; with twelve drawings of sites and artifacts by Wayne Thiebaud
Invisible cities / Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver
Invisible cities [electronic resource] Calvino, Italo.
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