基本信息出版社：Touchstone
页码：426 页
出版日期：1972年08月
ISBN：0671212095
条形码：9780671212094
版本：Revised
装帧：平装
丛书名：A Touchstone book
外文书名：如何阅读一本书

内容简介 在线阅读本书

How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated.

You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author's message, criticize. You are taught the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science.

Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests whereby you can measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension and speed.

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Jacques Barzun

These four hundred pages are packed full of high matters which no one solicitous of the future of American culture can afford to over-look.

The New Yorker

It shows concretely how the serious work of proper reading may be accomplished and how much it may yield in the way of instruction and delight.

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The New Yorker It shows concretely how the serious work of proper reading may be accomplished and how much it may yield in the way of instruction and delight.