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How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book)
Van Doren Adler
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Description for How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book)
paperback. 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 Series: A Touchstone book. Num Pages: 426 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 374.
With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material.
Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them—from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message ... Read more
With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material.
Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them—from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Touchstone
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
426
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780671212094
SKU
V9780671212094
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-94
About Van Doren 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 ... Read more
Reviews for How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book)
"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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more