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Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories

Italo Calvino

First published 1995
Publisher Pantheon Books
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages 277
Price $24.00
ISBN 0679442057

{{Tr|Tim Parks}} from Prima che tu dica Pronto (Mondadori Milan 1993).

This collection contains a number of non-speculative stories which provisionally have not been indexed:

  • p. 31: Like a Flight of Ducks (short story)
  • p. 47: Wind in a City (short story)
  • p. 64: A General in the Library (short story)
  • p. 70: The Workshop Hen (short story)
  • p. 79: Numbers in the Dark (short story)
  • p. 90: The Queen's Necklace (novelette)
  • p. 115: Becalmed in the Antilles (short story)
  • p. 125: Nocturnal Soliloquy of a Scottish Nobleman (short story)
  • p. 129: A Beautiful Day in March (short story)
  • p. 195: Before You Say "Hello" (short story)
  • p. 207: The Call of the Water (short story)
  • p. 227: The Memoirs of Casanova (short story)
  • p. 237: 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.

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Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories Cover 1996 Vintage (UK) Trade Paperback Collection 276
Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories Cover 1996 Vintage Books Trade Paperback Collection 276
Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories Cover 2009 Penguin Books Trade Paperback Collection Vittore Carpaccio 272