Why Read the Classics?

Why Read the Classics?

By
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
2014 • 291 pages

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6 books

Literary Criticism And Analysis

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The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
Why Read the Classics?
My Life in Middlemarch
A Formula of His Own: Henry Adams's Literary Experiment

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30 books

Books About Books

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How to Read and Why
Gateway to the great books
How Reading Changed My Life
Books That Changed History
The Library Book
The Paris Library

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179 books

Classics

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Romeo and Juliet
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Little Women
To Kill a Mockingbird
Little Dorrit
North and South

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269 books

Non Fiction

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Karla
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Nicholas and Alexandra
Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Becoming
What She Ate

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11 books

Essays

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Karla
Minor Feelings
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Too Much and Not the Mood
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century
How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
The Empathy Exams

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25 books

Tbr

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The Long Form
Cold Nights of Childhood
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Biography of X
Things We Lost in the Fire
Death in Her Hands

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235 books

Library

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Gravity's Rainbow
Slaughterhouse 5
The Da Vinci Code
The Martian
The Secret History
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived