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Why Read the Classics?

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141189703

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 213g

  • RRP: £9.99

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.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141189703

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 213g

  • RRP: £9.99

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About the Author

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.

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