Italo Calvino brilliantly review some most known classics, such as:

Odissey by Homer

Anabase by Xenofante

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Robison Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Candide by Voltaire

Jacques le Fataliste by Denis Diderot

La Chartreuse de Parma by Stendhal

Our Mutual Friend by Dickens

Daisy Miller by Henry James

Doctor Jivago by Boris Pasternak

among many other celebrated authors.