Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino, Geoffrey Brock (Translation)

Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino, Geoffrey Brock (Translation)'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future. His effervescent last works, left unfinished at his death, were the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, which he was due to deliver at Harvard in 1985 86. These surviving drafts explore the literary

the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence

Deepak Chopra shows us how to transform our lives forever - and the lives of those whom we love

Dawood’s move to Karachi

A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters

studies are her first priority

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City

to the farthest reaches of the human heart

his main concern is to show that culture and morality

But her life is shaken up when she’s sent to the city to live with another little girl who’s in need of company

bears and gods

Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz

Set against the backdrop of his return to India after having been illegally deported from the United States