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Title: WHY READ THE CLASSICS?
By: Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks (Trans)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0141189703
ISBN 13: 9780141189703
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 1 May, 2009
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 288
Translated from: Italian
Description: Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author's criticism.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Classics
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