Why Read the Classics?

Calvino, Italo

Thirty-six essays: books, authors, motifs; subjects include: 'Conrad's Captains', Francis Ponge, 'That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana', 'The Structure of Orlando Furioso', 'The Odysseys within The Odyssey', and the title piece; indexed.

Publisher: Vintage. Reprint 2000
Edition: 2nd Edition
Place Published: London
Printed wrappers. Fine.


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