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Books mentioned or looked at in more close detail in "Why read the classics" by Italo Calvino. Tried to keep it to one book per author

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The Odyssey

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The Adventures of Huckleber...

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The Old Man and the Sea

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Metamorphoses

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Anabasis 1-7

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Why Read the Classics?

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Daisy Miller

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7 books · 2 voters · list created February 14th, 2013 by Guido (votes) .
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