How to Read and Why -- Harold Bloom

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found? is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins 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 threatens to eclipse the practice of reading, Bloom draws on his experience as critic, teacher, and prolific reader to plumb the great books for their sustaining wisdom. <br> 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. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Harold Bloom<br><b>Publisher:</b> Scribner Book Company<br><b>Published:</b> 10/02/2001<br><b>Pages:</b> 288<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.55lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780684859071<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Harold Bloom</b> is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University, Berg Professor of English at New York University, and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard. His more than twenty books include <i>Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Western Canon, The Book of J, </i> and his most recent work, <i>Stories and Poems