Why Read the Classics?
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Author(s): Italo Calvino
Contemporary Non-Fiction | Secondhand
Thirty-six essays by Calvino on his personal classics: the writers, poets and scientists who meant most to him at various stages of his life. His pieces range from antiquity (Homer and Ovid), through early modern and Enlightenment Europe, such as (Defoe), to American mentors (Hemingway).
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Random House
- : Vintage
- : 0.238
- : 01 June 2000
- : 200mm X 132mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Italo Calvino
- : Paperback
- : 809
- : good-very good
- : 288
- : Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Literary theory