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    <body><![CDATA[An all around story-teller in the strictest sense, Calvino guides the reader through a delightfully conceived but ultimately unfulfilling novella in The Baron in the Trees. This story is about the Baron Cosimo from a small provincial town in  Italy who at the outset of teenagedom becomes fed up with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22135271">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Originally I had read sections of this book in Italian for a class I took while studying abroad. Calvino's sentences and vocabulary can be a bear to translate, especially given the nature of the book; the protagonist, Cosimo, spends most of the novel climbing in various species of tree, and even at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15228414">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm just not sure I get Italo Calvino. This book is quite literally about a Baron who, when he's 12, decides he's going to live in the trees (good title, then). He does just that, and we get to learn about how he moves around in the trees, how he dresses, and what he eats. He never comes down, and a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26824335">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In Calvino's The Baron in the Trees an eighteenth century Italian boy takes to the trees and refuses to come down. Neither love nor war dissuade Cosimo from living out his life in his arboreal element. Even when attacked by pirates and carried out to sea he stays aloft in the ship's mast. His romanc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55477592">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Cosimo, filho do Barão de Rondó, num gesto de revolta por causa de um jantar de caracóis preparado pela irmã Battista, decide viver no cimo das árvores e não mais pisar o chão. Aquela que parecia uma promessa que não ia durar mais que o efémero fulgor da juventude prolongou-se pela vida int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51497005">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Baron in the Trees is a story about a boy who climbs into a tree in rebellion against his family, and never comes back down. He doesn't conform to the standard ideas of what he as the Baron should be like, in fact he practically shirks his duties, leaving them to his younger brother to manage. A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49445670">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Cosimo, filho do Barão de Rondo, não gosta de caracóis, em sinal (atitude) de revolta (pois o jantar era caracóis e ele recusou-se a comer) decide ir viver no cimo das árvores. Uma promessa para a vida.<br/><br/>Cosimo aprende a viver o seu dia-a-dia (necessidades básicas como comer, lavar, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49140798">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Baron in the Trees]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Simply bizarre.  This excerpt from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://able2know.org">able2know.org</a> sums it up perfectly:<br/><br/>In 1767, 12-year-old Baron Cosimo Piavosco di Rondo refuses to eat the snails he's been served at table and, in an Italian snit, takes to the trees. He spends the rest of his considerably long life in the trees -- with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43685557">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fabulous book! Cosimo decides after an argument with his father that he will go and live in the trees and not come down! In fact he is true to his word (how many of us made equally silly promises when we were young and couldn't keep them?). He manages to live a full and useful life in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59513064">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[من چند سال پیش این کتاب رو خوندم ویه مقدار کند پیش می رفت ولی از اون کتاب هاست که باید یه بار دیگر بخونمش.(بدینگونه عشقشان اغاز شد.کوزیمو خوش ومنگ بود.دختر نیز خود را خو...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46638881">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[John Gardner in *The Art of Fiction*]]></recommended_by>
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  <date_added>Fri Aug 14 05:24:28 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm trapped between 3 and 4 stars. I give it 3 stars for story power and 4 stars for writing power (though as some other reviewers have said, this translation is a bit ... wooden). And i've chosen to round down because story usually trumps writing for me. <br/><br/>Speaking of the translation, in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67355745">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Calvino is the writer who loves reading.  Though he doesn't actually come out and address the reader outright as he did in &quot;If on a Winter's Night A Traveler&quot;, he comes pretty close.  He cites old literature and philosophers and plays on the idea of self mythology.  The main character is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71509448">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[بارون درخت‌نشین]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot; دوری از جمع. به بالا پناه بردن و لودگی از بالای درخت لذتی دارد. آن بالا بهتر انسانها را می بینی. وقتی در میانشان نباشی...&quot;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[آخرش هم نفهميدم انگيزه نوشتن اين كتاب چه بوده است. به جز آن بخش محدود در مورد عشق كوزيمو و ويولتا، كتاب فقط تعريف يك داستان پراكنده و دست و پا شكسته بود كه معلوم نشد زب...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48577264">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence and even has love affairs. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. <br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall, not bad, but I wasn't enthralled. <br/><br/>The boy/man living in the trees is a cool idea, and there were some creative bits about what the challenges and benefits of such a life would be. There were some funny parts -- I enjoyed just about every mention of Batista. And some cute parts, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30423137">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence and even has love affairs. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. <br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[ترجمه: مهدی سحابی<br/>تعداد صفحات کتاب: 320 صفحه<br/>این کتاب دومین کتاب نوشته شده از مجموعه &quot;سه گانه نیاکان ما&quot; هست. کتاب در سال 1957 نوشته شده و داستان سبکی نزدیک به رئ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27784919">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really delightful book with which to start my summer reading: the life story of Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, the son of minor nobility in eighteenth century Italy, who, at the age of twelve, leaves the family table after a fight with his father, climbs a tree, and swears never to set foot o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23720784">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Three stars is probably unfair to this book, to be honest. It's unbelievably well-written for starters, head and shoulders above almost anything you're going to find in terms of sheer gorgeous sentences.<br/><br/>But in the end, it's one of those books by Calvino that are almost smug in their sati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17221779">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Read&quot; is kind of a lie. I found this book extremely dull and quit after about 100 pages. The title is all you need to know. It's about a Baron who climbs into the trees and doesn't want to come down. If you'd like to read a lot of descriptions of how someone goes about living in trees, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70769843">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;You see...War...For years now I've been dealing as best I can with a thing that in itself is appalling; war...and all this for ideals which I shall never, perhaps, be able to fully explain to myself...&quot; said the officer.<br/>&quot;I too,&quot; replied Cosimo, &quot;have lived many years ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75455559">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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