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How to Read and Why

By Harold Bloom

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| Paperback | 9781841150390

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For more than forty years, renowned literary critic Harold 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 critContinue

For more than forty years, renowned literary critic Harold 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. Bloom provides illuminating guidance on how to read the works of beloved writers such as William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Charles Dickens; and he illustrates what such reading can bring -- aesthetic pleasure, self-knowledge, and the lifetime companionship of the most intriguing 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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  • Every man is a book

    For the English edition of this book it counts what I wrote for the Italian edition.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 288 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 1841150398
  • ISBN-13: 9781841150390
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate
  • Pub date: Sep 03, 2001
  • Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Audio Cassette
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