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What Is a Classic? by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Dec 23, 202130 minSeason 1Ep. 959
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Episode description

If all the books in the world were on fire, some men would risk their lives to save certain priceless writings: the world's classics. Sainte-Beuve here tells why. (Volume 32, Harvard Classics)

Sainte-Beuve born Dec. 23, 1804.

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