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How to read a book : the art of getting a liberal education / by Mortimer J. Adler.

By: Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, Simon and Schuster [c1940]General Notes: "Second printing.".Bibliography: "A list of the great books": p. 373-389.Description: ix pages, 2 leaves, 3-398 pages, 1 leaf 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Reading | Reading, Psychology of | Books and readingDDC classification: 028
Contents:
The activity of reading. To the average reader -- The reading of "reading" -- Reading is learning -- Teachers, dead or alive -- "The defeat of the schools" -- On self-help -- The rules. From many rules to one habit -- Catching on from the title -- Seeing the skeleton -- Coming to terms -- What's the proposition and why -- The etiquette of talking back -- The things the reader can say -- And still more rules -- The rest of the reader's life. The other half -- The great books -- Free minds and free men -- A list of the great books.
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The activity of reading. To the average reader -- The reading of "reading" -- Reading is learning -- Teachers, dead or alive -- "The defeat of the schools" -- On self-help -- The rules. From many rules to one habit -- Catching on from the title -- Seeing the skeleton -- Coming to terms -- What's the proposition and why -- The etiquette of talking back -- The things the reader can say -- And still more rules -- The rest of the reader's life. The other half -- The great books -- Free minds and free men -- A list of the great books.

"Second printing."

"A list of the great books": p. 373-389.

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