Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories

Overview:

  • Title: Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories
  • Author: Italo Calvino
  • Year: 2009
  • ISBN-10: 9780141189741
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Price: £9.99
  • Pages: 272
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories
  • Notes:
    • "Published in Penguin Classics 2009"
    • First printing
    • Month from Locus1
    • This collection contains a number of non-speculative stories which provisionally have not been indexed:
    • Like a Flight of Ducks (short story)
    • Wind in a City (short story)
    • A General in the Library (short story)
    • The Workshop Hen (short story)
    • Numbers in the Dark (short story)
    • The Queen's Necklace (novelette)
    • Becalmed in the Antilles (short story)
    • Nocturnal Soliloquy of a Scottish Nobleman (short story)
    • A Beautiful Day in March (short story)
    • Before You Say "Hello" (short story)
    • The Call of the Water (short story)
    • The Memoirs of Casanova (short story)
    • Henry Ford (short story)
    It is questionable whether "Conscience" and "Solidarity," which are fables but without speculative elements, should be included. "Love Far from Home" and "The Petrol Pump" are borderline speculative.