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Why Read the Classics? Hardcover - 1999
by Italo Calvino; Martin McLaughlin (Translator)
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- Title Why Read the Classics?
- Author Italo Calvino; Martin McLaughlin (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pantheon Books, New York
- Date 1999
- ISBN 9780679415244 / 0679415246
- Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 9.6 x 6.47 x 1.04 in (24.38 x 16.43 x 2.64 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Canon (Literature), Literature - History and criticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99021535
- Dewey Decimal Code 809
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New York City, NY: Pantheon, 1999. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Pantheon, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 278 pages. Retrospective collection of the author's literary essays. One of the greatest books of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published posthumously, Italo Calvino had been planning the book himself before his sudden death in 1985. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Italo Calvino's "Why Read The Classics?" in a felicitous English translation. His literary criticism in its late, and most acute, stage. It is quite a high-wire act: The ultimate "post-modernist" writer defends the enduring importance of the Western Classical canon. "Why read Italo Calvino's book on the classics? Because it passes his own test for what a classic is and its brisk prose can…
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