Invisible Cities Art One of the Best Books

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Anonymous quotes

the banal is hard to tell from the bizarre

a professor emeritus of English at the University of Oxford

From the vantage point of 1971

Invisible Cities Art One of the Best BooksTitle: Invisible Cities Author: Italo Calvino ISBN: 9780156453806 Publisher: Mariner Books Classics Published: 1978 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher 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