Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino

Why Read the Classics?

Italo Calvino with Martin L. McLaughlin

278 pages first pub 1991 (view editions)

fiction classics essays adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
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A classic is a book that is best explained as, “a book that has never finished saying what it has to say”. In Why Read the Classics?, Calvino charts the lasting impact of the classic canon, positing the classic as an everlasting ideal against whic...

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Moods

informative: 80%

reflective: 55%

challenging: 25%

inspiring: 25%

funny: 10%

lighthearted: 10%

relaxing: 10%

adventurous: 5%


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