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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. A CNN Book of the Week: “Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It's masterfully done.” –Farheed ZakariaOriginally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them—from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author's message from the text. Also included is instruction in the different techniques that work best for reading particular genres, such as practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science works. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests you can use measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed.

Who reads How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading?

Author

Mortimer J. Adler, Charles van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren

Publisher

A Touchstone Book, Published by Simon & Schuster

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439510261

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Computer Science, Literary Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (9,478 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14