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by Calasso, Roberto

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  • Title The Book of All Books
  • Author Calasso, Roberto
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0374601895.G
  • ISBN 9780374601898 / 0374601895
  • Weight 1.51 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.45 x 1.7 in (23.62 x 16.38 x 4.32 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021028288
  • Dewey Decimal Code 221.68

About the author

Roberto Calasso (1941-2021) was born in Florence and lived in Milan. Begun in 1983 with The Ruin of Kasch, his landmark series now comprises The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Celestial Hunter, The Unnamable Present, and The Book of All Books. Calasso also wrote the novel The Impure Fool and eight books of essays: The Forty-Nine Steps, Literature and the Gods, The Madness That Comes from the Nymphs, One Hundred Letters to an Unknown Reader, The Art of the Publisher, The Hieroglyphs of Sir Thomas Browne, The Rule of the Good Neighbor or How to Find an Order for Your Books, and American Allucinations. He was the publisher of Adelphi Edizioni.

Tim Parks is the author of many novels, translations, and works of nonfiction, including Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness and Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal.