How To Read and Why [Advance Uncorrected Reader's Proof]

Harold Bloom

ISBN 10: 0684859068 / ISBN 13: 9780684859064

Published by Scribner, 2000

About this Item

Advance Reader's Copy of Uncorrected Proof in paperback of the June 2000 1st printing. Clean & tight copy, unread in Very Good condition; generic proof cover in robin's-egg blue; no creases in spine, no age toning on pages. No jacket as issued. "At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, Harold Bloom explores in direct terms how to read and why. Equal parts inspiration, self-help, and brilliant analysis of seminal works of literature, this empowering and practical book is geared not toward academics but toward the general reading public. It is Bloom's goal to teach readers how to immerse themselves in great literature to find what so many are searching for: a stronger conception of the self. With sections on short stories, poems, novels and plays, HOW TO READ AND WHY examines the works of such authors as Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens and William Faulkner." Pristine ARC copy, quite presentable & collectible.

Seller Inventory # RUB782

Bibliographic Details

• Title: How To Read and Why [Advance Uncorrected Reader's Proof]
• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684859068
• ISBN 13: 9780684859064
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Special Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the renowned literary critic explores reasons for reading, offering inspirational analyses of seminal works of literature, and demonstrates the aesthetic pleasure reading can bring. 150,000 first printing.

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 The Anxiety of Influence. 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.