How to Read a Book
The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
$29.75
- Paperback
426 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1986
Summary
How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated.
You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them – from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780671212094 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0671212095 |
| Author: | Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Touchstone |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 426 |
| Edition: | Revised edition |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1986 |
| Weight: | 338g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 135mm x 25mm |
| Series: | A Touchstone book |
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Critics Review
“These four hundred pages are packed full of high matters which no one solicitous of the future of American culture can afford to overlook.”
“These four hundred pages are packed full of high matters which no one solicitous of the future of American culture can afford to overlook.” – Jacques Barzun
“It shows concretely how the serious work of proper reading may be accomplished and how much it may yield in the way of instruction and delight.” * The New Yorker *
”‘There is the book; and here is your mind.’ Adler and Van Doren’s suggestions on how to connect the two will make you nostalgic for a slower, more earnest, less trivial time.” – Anne Fadiman
About The Author
Mortimer J. Adler
Dr. Mortimer J. Adler was Chairman of the Board of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, Honorary Trustee of the Aspen Institute, and authored more than fifty books. He died in 2001.
Dr. Charles Van Doren earned advanced degrees in both literature and mathematics from Columbia University, where he later taught English and was the Assistant Director of the Institute for Philosophical Research. He also worked for Encyclopedia Britannica in Chicago.
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