Last Comes The Raven: And Other Stories Fiction_Gift_Guide and Eric Carle's Panda Bear

and Eric Carle's Panda Bear

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Last Comes The Raven: And Other Stories Fiction_Gift_Guide and Eric Carle's Panda BearThe first complete English language edition of one of Calvinos important early short story collections Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collectionone of Calvinos earliesttake place in a World War IIera and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fablelike qualities that would come to define this master storytellers later style. A trio of gluttonous burglars invade a pastry shop; two children trespass