Charles Van Doren: 2 books
The Joy of Reading
A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
"Charles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible." -Mortimer J. Adler
This engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world: from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to Salinger and Heinlein in 20th century...
by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material.
A CNN Book of the Week: “Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them....