How to read and why / Harold Bloom.

New York : Scribner, [2000]

283 pages ; 23 cm

BEIN 2018 6010: Number line: "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2" on title page verso indicates 1st printing. Dust jacket. Autograph: Samuel R. Delany. Blank white sticker covering MSRP on dust jacket. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.

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. 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 self-knowledge, and the lifetime companionship of the most engaging and complex literary characters.--From publisher's description.

English

June 01, 2002

Includes bibliographical references.