About this title: Harold Bloom writes about reading in an electronic age, making distinctions between information and knowledge (not to mention wisdom) and pointing out the indispensable virtues of such literary icons as Shakespeare, Austen, and Chekhov.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780684859064ISBN:0684859068
Description: Good in Good jacket. Remainder. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ D.J. not price clipped; creased; small tear on front bottom flyleaf crease; moderate edge wear/ Friends of the Library stamp on title and or front page/ corners and spine bumped; bottom corners slightly frayed and soiled/ several page tips creased/ remainder mark on bottom of book. read more
Description: Good. 0684859076 Book could have a shelf wear, or a bump, or sunfade to edges. These are new unread books from the publisher with one of these conditions. See are feedback as customers are satisfied in how we grade our books. Has remainder mark. Fast shipping and customer service is our number 1 priority! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Quarter-cloth
Publisher: Scribner, New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780684859064ISBN:0684859068
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. First Edition, Third Prnting. Hard cover 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. Fine book in like unclipped DJ. Yale College literarature professor and critic discusses his favorite written works (Poems, Short Stories, Novels, and Plays) and how and why they should be read. 283pp. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2000-06-05
ISBN-13:9780684859064ISBN:0684859068
Description: Like New. Unread, bright new hardcover in brand new conditon dustjacket. Has former owner name whited out inside book, otherwise perfect. Mendopower Employment Services carefully packs each book in high-quality bubble lined, envelopes. We appreciate your business and welcome any questions. Hester Estate. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780684859064ISBN:0684859068
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. Fine book & Near Fine D/J. Excellent condition. Pristine text. Very slight shelf wear on back of D/J. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 288 p. Audience: General/trade. Yellow boards with brown spine with gilt title on spine. D/J. The author provides illuminating guidance on how to read a text, drawing on writings from Shakespeare, Heminsgway, Austen, Whitman, Dickinson, Dickens, & Faulkner. Bloom is a colossus among critics. read more
Edition: First paperback edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: A Touchstone Book, New York
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780684859071ISBN:0684859076
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 283 pp.; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. "'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 ... read more
"The venerable Bloom gives us a quick view of the state of reading with some excellent suggestions for the revival of the art. Of course Bloom is not in such favor nowadays academically and he does harp a bit much over Shakespeare, but his insights and observations make you want to run out to the bookstore to cover some on those titles Bloom deems essential. I'm sharing this one around to all of my reading friends."
Harold Bloom definitely gets off on Shakespeare, and his decision on how good other writers are is based off the criteria of how Shakespearean they are. This book also doesn't go into how to read or why. This book is more about what to read, according to Harold Bloom. His book isn't very Shakespearean though, so I wouldn't bother reading it."
"I've been keeping my eye out in bookshops and libraries for books of this sort: "how to read"-type things. The reason is because of a quiet yet nagging thought in the side of my brain telling me I missed something about reading in my schooling. The thought that despite a young lifetime of private education, some key concepts were either still missing or - worse - forgotten. That, and maybe too much pot. Hehe.
Bloom's how-to-read-book, however, isn't nearly as joyous as a certain Thomas C. Foster's "How to Read Literature Like a Professor." Despite it's marketing-department title, it's infinitely less pretentious and makes generously fewer assumptions about what the reader knows about reading. Basically it assumes you know nothing, which is wonderful."
"This is a good introductory book to Bloom's thoughts on the whole of canonical literature as he sees it. Much of the material can be found in in more expanded fashion in his other books. Consider this Cliff Notes for Harold Bloom."
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