How to Read and Why

Bloom, Harold

ISBN 10: 0684859076 / ISBN 13: 9780684859071

Published by Scribner, 2001

About this Item

Clean copy with some rather unfortunate coffee stains on front cover (see photo), and light wear to page edges.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1783700941537

Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Read and Why
• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684859076
• ISBN 13: 9780684859071
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 13.97W x 21.43H x 1.52D centimeters 13.97 centimeters width by 21.43 centimeters height by 1.52 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1050 grams

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Synopsis

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for literature. Now, at a time when faster and easier electronic media threatens to eclipse the practice of reading, Bloom draws on his experience as critic, teacher, and prolific reader to plumb the great books for their sustaining wisdom.
Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book.

About the Author

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University, and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than twenty books include Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, The Book of J, and his most recent work, Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages. He is a MacArthur Prize fellow; a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the recipient of many awards, including the Academy's Gold Medal for Criticism; and he holds honorary degrees from the universities of Rome and Bologna.