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How To Read and Why

By Harold Bloom

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| Hardcover | 9780684859064

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"Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom commences this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into Continue

"Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom commences 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 threaten 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. Always dazzling in his ability to draw connections between texts across continents and centuries, Bloom instructs readers in how to immerse themselves in the different literary forms.

Probing discussions of the works of beloved writers such as William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, and William Faulkner highlight the varied challenges and delights found in short stories, poems, novels, and plays. Bloom not only provides illuminating guidance on how to read a text but also illustrates what such reading can bring -- aesthetic pleasure, increased individuality and selfknowledge, and the lifetime companionship of the most engaging and complex literary characters.

Bloom's engaging prose and brilliant insights will send you hurrying back to old favorites and entice you to discover new ones. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book.

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  • The crack of Bloom

    How to Read and Why Harold Bloom Fourth Estate £15.99, pp283 Buy it at BOL Harold Bloom was once an interesting critic. In the 1970s, he developed an extravagant theory of literary creation for which all authors were locked in Oedipal combat with som ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Why read this?

    How to Read and Why Harold Bloom Fourth Estate, £15.99, 283pp Buy it at BOL At the age of eight, Harold Bloom used to wander around chanting the verses of Blake and Housman. It's a disturbing image, particularly when you consider what the little fell ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0684859068
  • ISBN-13: 9780684859064
  • Publisher: Scribner
  • Pub date: Jun 05, 2000
  • Dimensions: 1419 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback and Audio Cassette
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