Adam, One Afternoon Italo Calvino

This collection of playful, deadly fables is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story The Argentine Ant moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'.

- Adam, One Afternoon
- The Enchanted Garden
- Father to Son
- A Goatherd at Luncheon
- Leaving Again Shortly
- The House of the Beehives
- Fear on the Footpath
- Hunger at Bévera
- Going to Headquarters
- The Crow Comes Last
- One of the Three is Still Alive
- Animal Wood
- Seen in the Canteen
- Theft in a Cake Shop
- Dollars and the Demi-Mondaine
- Sleeping Like Dogs
- Desire in November
- A Judgment
- The Cat and the Policeman
- Who Put the Mine in the Sea?
- The Argentine Ant