Tune in for a moderately informed discussion of an article written by Italo Calvino from The New York Review of Books from 1986. The full article is available here, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1986/10/09/why-read-the-classics/.

Books/authors mentioned in article as "classics" : 

Herodotus : https://bit.ly/2Abdchs

Thucydides : https://bit.ly/2M7d59j

Henri de Saint-Simon : https://amz.run/3FKA

Cardinal de Retz : https://bit.ly/3catCnw

Honore Balzac : https://bit.ly/2XEcaST

Charles Dickens : https://bit.ly/3d7lTIc

Emile Zola : https://bit.ly/2X7auCm

Michel Butor : https://bit.ly/2XDvIqC

Homer : https://bit.ly/2AcK3ST

Franz Kafka : https://bit.ly/3dbNfNd

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev : https://bit.ly/2X5vqd8

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky : https://bit.ly/3eCubIv

Stéphane Mallarmé : https://amz.run/3FKL

Jean-Jacques Rousseau : https://bit.ly/2ZIsPaB

Lucretius : https://bit.ly/3gohse5

Lucian : https://amz.run/3FKW

Montaigne : https://bit.ly/3cap6W7

Erasmus : https://bit.ly/2M119G6

Quevedo : https://amz.run/3FKb

Marlowe : https://bit.ly/2M3FFZ7

Rene Descartes', the Discourse on Method : https://bit.ly/2AdNMje

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's, Wilhelm Meister : https://bit.ly/3gvJbJG

Coleridge : https://bit.ly/2M1bgdU

Ruskin : https://bit.ly/3gvZ8Qj

Proust : https://amz.run/3FKh

Valéry : https://amz.run/3FKk

Murasaki : https://bit.ly/2XCr8J7

Icelandic Sagas : https://amz.run/3FKn

Giacomo Leopardi : https://bit.ly/2TKgqiB

E. M. Cioran : https://bit.ly/3eoti64