Recently read: Why Read The Classics? by Italo Calvino.

This is a collection of brief essays by Calvino about a variety of authors and works of literature ranging from Homer to Crusoe to Hemingway to Borges. The Crusoe essay is wonderful, but my favorite is The Odysseys Within The Odyssey, which I used in a paper I wrote last year for a graduate course.

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