An edition of How to read a book: the art of getting a liberal education (1940)

How to read a book

the art of getting a liberal education

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An edition of How to read a book: the art of getting a liberal education (1940)

How to read a book

the art of getting a liberal education

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Simon and Schuster
Language
English
Pages
398

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Subjects

Reading, Psychology of, Open Library Staff Picks, Psychology of Reading, Books and reading, Lecture, Reading, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Books, Reading (Adult education)

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Table of Contents

PART I. THE ACTIVITY OF READING
1. To the Average Reader
Page 3
2. The Reading of "Reading"
Page 16
3. Reading Is Learning
Page 33
4. Teachers, Dead or Alive
Page 48
5. "The Defeat of the Schools"
Page 65
6. On Serf-Help
Page 101
PART II. THE RULES
7. From Many Rules to One Habit
Page 119
8. Catching on From the Title
Page 140
9. Seeing the Skeleton
Page 160
10. Coming to Terms
Page 185
11. What's the Proposition and Why
Page 209
12. The Etiquette of Talking Back
Page 235
13. The Things the Reader Can Say
Page 251
14. And Still More Rules
Page 266
PART III. THE REST OF THE READER'S LIFE
15. The Other Half
Page 295
16. The Great Books
Page 322
17. Free Minds and Free Men
Page 354
APPENDIX. A List of the Great Books
Page 373
INDEX.
Page 391

Edition Notes

"A list of the great books": p. 373-389.
"Second printing."

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
028
Library of Congress
PN83 .A43 1940a

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Pagination
ix p., 2 l., 3-398 p., 1 l.
Number of pages
398

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL6407556M
Internet Archive
howtoreadbookartadlerich
LCCN
40027195
OCLC/WorldCat
325992
LibraryThing
2595

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OL487444W

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