num_pages: 288
description: In this powerful and playful collection, the brilliant Italo Calvino offers fans and newcomers alike thirty-six trenchant essays on the enduring importance of the crucial authors of Western civilization, from Homer to Borges. Calvino brings his sparkling imagination and erudition to bear on our most treasured works of the past two and a half millennia.
language: English
title: Why Read the Classics?
titlecomplete: Why Read the Classics?
genres: Writing, Books About Books, Italy, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Classics, Italian Literature, Criticism, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 2828
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: John Florio Prize
category: Martin McLaughlin, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Prêmio Jabuti
category: Produção editorial
publisher: Vintage Canada