Italian Folktales
- ISBN-10
- 0156454890
- ISBN-13
- 9780156454896
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 763
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Italo Calvino
Description
Retells two hundred traditional Italian tales, including the stories of a fearless little man, a prince who married a frog, and a woman who lived on wind
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