How to Read and Why

by HaroldBloom (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $17.50

  America's leading literary critic addresses the uses of deep reading. How to Read and Why is Harold Bloom's manifesto for the preponderance of written culture and will be an inspiration to students and teachers alike.

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $17.98

  Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found? is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins 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 threatens 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. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book.