Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible mini editions of short stories novellas
and essays from the world's greatest writers designed by the award-winning Coralie
Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics they take us from
snowy Japan to springtime Vienna from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean
island and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed
and printed these collectible editions are bound in colourful tactile cloth and stamped with
foil. Twelve enchanting and fantastical stories about the evolution of the universe from the
giant of Italian literature Italo Calvino. His characters - whether human dinosaur or mollusc
- disport themselves among galaxies experience the solidification of planets move from
aquatic to terrestrial existence play games with hydrogen atoms - and have time for a love
life. 'A landmark in fiction the work of a master' - Ursula K Le Guin
