FA: How to Read a Book by Adler & Van Doren, 1972 TPB

How to Read a Book
The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren

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.

Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, New York, 1972, reprint, 29th printing, 426
pages, 5 1/4" x 8 1/4", trade paperback.

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Auction closes 3/25/07.