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Item number:400072231812
Item location:Huntsville, AL, United States
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Author: Italo CalvinoFormat: Softcover
Publisher: Mariner BooksISBN-10: 0156106809
ISBN-13: 9780156106801Category: --
Publication Year: 1977Sub-Category: --
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Calvino's fable tells the life story of young Cosimo, who, disgusted with the state of the world--and with his parents in particular--expresses his rebellion by climbing into the trees, vowing never to come down.

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Series:Harbrace Paperbound Library, 72

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Length:217 pages
Height:8.3 in.
Width:5.5 in.
Thickness:0.5 in.
Weight:8.0 oz.

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A young, eighteenth-century Italian nobleman defies parental authority by adopting an exclusively arboreal life, watching from his perch in the trees the passing of the Enlightenment and participating in its various delights and duties.

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"Italo Calvino has tackled a quixotic theme in the novel at hand, and I am happy to say that he has the narrative leisure and the style to do it at least initial justice. He also realizes that psychology can be a wet blanket in comedy. This is the reason, I think, why he sets his scene in an era long before the present one where nasty Dr. Freud compels writers to make their people so unbearably lifelike...Mr. Calvino seems to have intended nothing less than the deliberate transmutation of fantastic notion into universal allegory. Since he is not Cervantes he does not succeed--yet we are frequently entertained and even incidentally instructed...Mr. Calvino's well-translated novel takes us on a diverting journey through an outre age. It never quite lives up to the exquisite potential of its premise."
New York Times Book Review - Frederic Morton (10/11/1959)

"THE BARON IN THE TREES takes to living in the wooded canopy of his estates as a boy and uses his ingenuity in order to never come down. Set before and during the Napoleonic Wars, this is a modern philosophical tale derived from the 18th century philosophical tale. It is full of wit and surprises."
Salon - A. S. Byatt (06/21/1999)

"A truly delicious fantasy...deserves to be read for its brio, for its charm, for the sheer fun of reading it."
Knowles 

'A tour de force...a stunning one, which consists in making us believe that life in the trees is as natural as life on earth...a wonder and a delight."
Knowles 


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