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Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino - First American Edition - 1999 - from West Side Book Shop, ABAA and Biblio.com

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This collection of posthumously published essays includes the title essay, in which Calvino makes a strong case for the reading--and re-reading--of classic literature. In the course of his argument, he touches on the works of Dickens, Flaubert, Voltaire, Stendahl, Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Raymond Queneau.

Media reviews

"[W]ill likely send you off to (re)read the classics being discussed and then summon you back again."

Why Read the Classics?

by Calvino, Italo

First American Edition

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Book desription: New York: Pantheon Books. 1999. First American Edition. H Hard Cover. Fine. x, 278 pp, translator's introduction, preface, essays, publisher's note, index. Pristine. Not price clipped. Clean, tight and strong binding with clean dust jacket and no highlighting or marginalia in text. Black half- cloth with gilt lettering to the backstrip. ~Click on BOOKSTORES to browse our extensive listings of similar titles in Literary Criticism~

Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller Inventory #: 000737
Format/binding: H Hard Cover
Book condition: Fine
Jacket condition: J Fine
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679415246
ISBN 13: 9780679415244
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Place: New York
Date published: 1999
Pages: 277
Size: 6.25 x 9.75 x 1.25 inches
Weight: 1.25 pounds
Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM ITALIAN LITERATURE ADDRESSES ESSAYS LECTURES

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