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Why Read the Classics?
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Why Read the Classics?

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From the internationally acclaimed author of some of this century’s most original fiction comes this posthumous collection of 36 literary essays that encourages readers to view old classics in a new light. Calvino writes on why Lara, not Zhivago, is the center of Pasternak’s masterpiece Dr. Zhivago , and explains how many odysseys are in The Odyssey .

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Date
16 January 2001
Pages
288
ISBN
9780679743491

From the internationally acclaimed author of some of this century’s most original fiction comes this posthumous collection of 36 literary essays that encourages readers to view old classics in a new light. Calvino writes on why Lara, not Zhivago, is the center of Pasternak’s masterpiece Dr. Zhivago , and explains how many odysseys are in The Odyssey .

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Date
16 January 2001
Pages
288
ISBN
9780679743491