Why Read the Classics? (39 page)

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, DECEMBER
2000

Translation copyright
©
1999 by Jonathan Cape

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Italy as
Perché leggere i classici
by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., Milan, in 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Palomar S.r.1. This translation originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Random House U.K., London, and subsequently in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1999.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Pantheon edition as follows:
        Calvino, Italo.
      [Perché leggere i classici. English]
    Why read the classics? / Italo Calvino;
translated from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin.
        p. cm.
    eISBN: 978-0-307-54931-0.
1. Canon (Literature) 2. Literature—History and criticism. I. Title.
      PN81.C25513 1999
      809—dc21 99-21535

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