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  Why Read the Classics? (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Italo Calvino, Translated by Tim Parks, Translated by Martin McLaughlin, Translated by Patrick Creagh, Translated by William Weaver

  

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  Short Description for Why Read the Classics?Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author's criticism.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 28 May 2009
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages
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  • Categories: Prose: Non-fiction | Anthologies (non-poetry) | Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Classics
  • ISBN 13: 9780141189703 ISBN 10: 0141189703
  • Sales rank: 71,113

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Full description for Why Read the Classics?

• "Why Read the Classics?" is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say they are 'rereading', not 'reading'), this is an absorbing collection of Italo Calvino's witty and passionate criticism.