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278 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780141189703
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication date: 28 May 2009
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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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278 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780141189703
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication date: 28 May 2009
Description
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...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings