by Italo Calvino
appears in About Italy, Fantasy, and Fiction.
One of the New York Times?s Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are ?a treasure? (Los Angeles Times). Filled with kings and peasants, saints and ogres?as well as some quite extraordinary plants and animals?these two hundred tales bring to life Italy?s folklore, sometimes with earthy humor, ...
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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