Why Read the Classics?

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This is a collection of 36 essays by Italo Calvino on his classics: the writers, poets and scientists who had meant most to him at different stages of his life. His pieces range fr om antiquity (Homer, Ovid), through early modern and Enlightenment Europe (Defoe), to American mentors (Hemingway). Show more