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How to Read and Why
By
Harold Bloom
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Scribner
Publication date
June 1, 2000
Pages
283
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780684859064
ISBN-10
0684859068
Dimensions
1 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
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$25.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
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.
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Hardcover
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from Scribner (June 1, 2000)
9780684859064 | details & prices | 283 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $25.00
About: At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the author explores reasons for reading and demonstrates the aesthetic pleasure reading can bring.
About: At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the author explores reasons for reading and demonstrates the aesthetic pleasure reading can bring.
Large print edition from Scribner (June 1, 2000)
9780743204286 | details & prices | 379 pages | 6.50 × 10.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $25.00
About: At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the author explores reasons for reading and demonstrates the aesthetic pleasure reading can bring.
About: At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the author explores reasons for reading and demonstrates the aesthetic pleasure reading can bring.
Paperback
from Scribner (September 25, 2001)
9780684859071 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $16.00
About: At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the author explores reasons for reading, offering inspirational analyses of seminal works of literature, and demonstrates the aesthetic pleasure reading can bring
About: At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the author explores reasons for reading, offering inspirational analyses of seminal works of literature, and demonstrates the aesthetic pleasure reading can bring
from Diane Pub Co (April 1, 2000)
9780756777364 | details & prices | 283 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $15.00
About: Bloom provides illuminating guidance on how to read the works of beloved writers sush as William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Carles Dickens: and he illustrates what such reading can bring - aesthetic pleasure and self-knowledge.
About: Bloom provides illuminating guidance on how to read the works of beloved writers sush as William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Carles Dickens: and he illustrates what such reading can bring - aesthetic pleasure and self-knowledge.
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