Why Read the Classics? by Calvino, Italo -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents About the Author Translator’s Introduction Preface Why Read the Classics?

Why Read the Classics? The Odysseys within The Odyssey Xenophon’s Anabasis Ovid and Universal Contiguity The Sky, Man, the Elephant Nezami’s Seven Princesses Tirant Lo Blanc The Structure of the Orlando Furioso Brief Anthology of Octaves from Ariosto Gerolamo Cardano The Book of Nature in Galileo Cyrano on the Moon Robinson Crusoe, Journal of Mercantile Virtues Candide, or Concerning Narrative Rapidity Denis Diderot, Jacques Le Fataliste Giammaria Ortes Knowledge as Dust-Cloud in Stendhal Guide for New Readers of Stendhal’s Charterhouse The City as Novel in Balzac Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend Gustave Flaubert, Trois Contes Leo Tolstoy, Two Hussars Mark Twain, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg Henry James, Daisy Miller Robert Louis Stevenson, The Pavilion on the Links Conrad’s Captains Pasternak and the Revolution The World is an Artichoke Carlo Emilio Gadda, the Pasticciaccio Eugenio Montale, ‘Forse un mattino andando’ Montale’s Cliff Hemingway and Ourselves Francis Ponge Jorge Luis Borges The Philosophy of Raymond Queneau Pavese and Human Sacrifice

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