Product Details
Touchstone, August 1972
Trade Paperback, 426 pages
ISBN-10: 0671212095
ISBN-13: 9780671212094
Description
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 author's message, criticize. You are taught the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science.
Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests whereby you can measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension and speed.
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Table of ContentsJacques Barzun
These four hundred pages are packed full of high matters which no one solicitous of the future of American culture can afford to over-look.
The New Yorker
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 YorkerIt 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 YorkerIt 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.
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