How to Read a Book:The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J Adler

How to Read a Book:The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J Adler

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.

Van Doren and philosopher Mortimer J. Smith coauthored the classic How to Read a Book. Adler is the author of A History of Knowledge (which sold 30,000 hardback copies and 150,000 paperback copies), as well as The Concept of Progress, Grand Treasury of Western Thought, The Annals of America, Second Chance: An American Tale, and other young-adult books and Webster's American biographies. He teaches at the University of Connecticut's Torrington Campus as an adjunct lecturer. Mark Van Doren, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Columbia University professor, was his father.

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ISBN 13	9781476790152
ISBN 10	1476790159
Title	How to Read a Book:The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Author	Mortimer J Adler
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2014-09-30
Number of pages	448
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