If On a Winter's Night a TravelerLibrarian's Note: alternate cover edition for this edition is in here. Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct,