How to Read a Book, Revised
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How to Read a Book, Revised   -     By: Mortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Van Doren

How to Read a Book, Revised

Touchstone / 1972 / Paperback

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Product Description

Originally published in 1940, Adler's living classic has now been updated. This respected guide to reading comprehension takes you through the processes of skimming; summarizing content; criticizing an author's writing fairly; and using different techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science, mathematics, philosophy, and social science. Ideal for high schoolers and college-bound students! 426 pages, softcover from Touchstone.

Product Information

Title: How to Read a Book, Revised
By: Mortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Van Doren
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 426
Vendor: Touchstone
Publication Date: 1972
Dimensions: 5 1/4 X 8 1/4 (inches)
Weight: 13 ounces
ISBN: 0671212095
ISBN-13: 9780671212094
Stock No: WW12095

Publisher's Description

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.

A CNN Book of the Week: "Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It's masterfully done." –Farheed Zakaria

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 from the text.

Also included is instruction in the different techniques that work best for reading particular genres, such as practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science works.

Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests you can use measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed.

Author Bio

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.

Editorial Reviews

"These four hundred pages are packed full of high matters which no one solicitous of the future of American culture can afford to overlook."
"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."

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