 | How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)
By Mortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Van Doren
ISBN: 9780671212094
ASIN: B0092GBLHY
UPC: 042516291251
ASIN: B007I0JG6O
ASIN: B00KQQT2EI
Published: 2013
Number of Pages: 424
Edition: Updated
Binding: Paperback |
Pricing & Availability:Additional Details:
Product Type: Book
Publisher: SIMON & SC
Description: With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is 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 ZakariaOriginally 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. |
Library of Congress Control Number
- LC control Number:
72081451 - LC control Number:
72081451International Standard Book Number:
0671212095:
0671212095 (pbk):
0671212095 ::
067121280X - Terms of availability:
$8.95 - Terms of availability:
8.95Special Coded Dates
- Type of date code:
OTSCC - Date 1, B.C. date:
engLibrary of Congress Call Number
- Classification number:
PN83 - Item number:
.A3 1972 - Item number:
.A43 1972Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- Classification number:
028Main Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
Adler, Mortimer J. - Personal name:
Adler, Mortimer Jerome, - Dates associated with a name:
1902- - Dates associated with a name:
1902-2001 - Dates associated with a name:
1902-2001. - Fuller form of name:
(Mortimer Jerome),Title Statement
- Title:
How to read a book / - Title:
How to read a book, - Title:
How to read a book, / - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren.Edition Statement:
Rev. and updated ed:
Rev. and updated ed.:
Rev. ed.:
Revised and updated ed. - Remainder of edition statement:
Rev. and updated ed. --Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
- Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
New York : - Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
New York, - Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
New York, : - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Simon and Schuster - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Simon and Schuster, - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Touchstone Books, - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
[1972] - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
[1972]. - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
1972. - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
c1972.Physical Description
- Extent:
xiii, 426 p. - Extent:
xiii, 426 p. ; - Dimensions:
22 cm - Dimensions:
22 cm.Price:
$8.95:
$8.95.General Note:
"A Touchstone book".:
Bibliography: p. 347-362.:
Includes index.:
Originally published 1940.Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography:
Bibliography: p. 347-362 - Bibliography:
Bibliography: p. 347-362.Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
- Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Reading - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Reading.Added Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
Van Doren, Charles Lincoln, - Personal name:
Van Doren, Charles, - Dates associated with a name:
1926- - Dates associated with a name:
1926- jt. author - Relator term:
joint author.