num_pages: 288
description: At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the renowned literary critic explores reasons for reading, offering inspirational analyses of seminal works of literature, and demonstrates the aesthetic pleasure reading can bring. 150,000 first printing.
language: English
title: How To Read and Why
titlecomplete: How To Read and Why
genres: Writing, Books About Books, Reference, Philosophy, Education, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Criticism, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 3453
publisher: Scribner