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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.

Why Read the Classics?

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 28/05/2009
    ISBN13: 9780141189703, 978-0141189703
    ISBN10: 0141189703

    Number of Pages: 288

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    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.

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