Invisible Cities Free Audiobook Download by Italo Calvino

Author Italo Calvino wrote a book of short stories with the same name. He is best known for his novels, but he was also a journalist and brief-story writer. Invisible Cities is a story collection that is reminiscent of the Q&A game Twenty Questions. In this collection, he creates cities from the imagination which has been translated into French, Italian, and English.

Radio network WBAI's production of Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino was read by Richard Higgins. It is an historical fantasy that consists of fifteen parts, each devoted to a different city. The story follows Marco Polo as he recounts his travels in Asia, but these cities have no geographic location. Despite this, the listener experiences them all simultaneously.

Italian journalist, essayist and novelist Italo Calvino's novel, 'Invisible Cities,' is presented by narrator Richard Higgins in a powerful audiobook download. The first book in the trilogy known as 'The Kingdom of the Shades,' 'Invisible Cities' is a literary masterpiece that explores many unique themes such as time and space, but also includes an overarching focus on unreality.

Italo Calvino's story tells of Marco Polo, a man whose life is spent travelling. In the course of his wanderings, he visits and recounts to us various cities that, through his eyes, we can never see in our own city. This essay discusses how this novel is not only about what it means to travel but also how it is like to travel.

"Invisible Cities" is a short, philosophical novella by Italo Calvino. In the story, Marco Polo visits Kublai Khan in China, but learns that most of the cities he sees are actually on Earth, and solely exist for him to see.