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Why Read the Classics?
Why Read the Classics
Author: Italo Calvino
In this collection of thirty-six essays, Calvino explores several original definitions of what makes a Classic, and surveys works that range in time from antiquity and early modern Europe, to the masters of the nineteenth-century novel and his early American mentors, through to his contemporaries.
ISBN-13: 9780099284895
ISBN-10: 0099284898
Publication Date: 6/1/2000
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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