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The Baron in the Trees

The Baron in the Trees
Italo Calvino Original title Il barone rampante (Italian, 1957)

The Baron in the Trees is a 1957 novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. Described as a conte philosophique and a metaphor for independence, it tells the adventures of a boy who climbs up a tree to spend the rest of his life inhabiting an arboreal kingdom. Calvino published a new version of the novel in 1959.


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