The Baron in the Trees

The Baron in the Trees
First edition
AuthorItalo Calvino
Original titleIl barone rampante
LanguageItalian
GenreFiction novel
Published1957
PublisherGiulio Einaudi
ISBN0156106809

The Baron in the Trees (Italian: Il barone rampante lit. 'The Rampant Baron') 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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