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How to Read and Why

How to Read and Why
Harold Bloom

At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the author explores reasons for reading and demonstrates the aesthetic pleasure reading can bring.

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“Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.”

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