What Books to Read and How to Read
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Pryde, David) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from What Books to Read and How to Read: Being Suggestions for Those Who Would Seek the Broad Highways of Literature "The multitude of books has now become almost overwhelming. Many of these are comparatively worthless; and it is quite possible for a man to go on reading for a lifetime and never light upon the great standard works. It is absolutely necessary, therefore, that every earnest reader should be able to discover the best books, and study them properly after they have been discovered. This is precisely the task which the present work undertakes." So wrote David Pryde in the Preface to the original edition of his book. True at that time, the statement is becoming still more true as the years pass. The multitude of books is already quite "overwhelming." Men and women devotedly read current books without ever - or very seldom - lighting upon the great standard literatures. Thousands who are keeping themselves studiously familiar with books which newspapers chronicle as "best sellers" fail to read a Waverley novel, or a novel by Jane Austen. They seldom, if ever, have heard of "The Ode on Intimations of Immortality." They know not Landor´s name. It is about ten years since the number of books annually published in this country reached 5,000, and in Great Britain reached 7,000. The totals are now probably in the neighborhood of 10,000 for each country, so that we have a grand total of 20,000 for all English-speaking peoples. While many among these 20,000 are necessarily credited to both countries, and so are counted twice, we should have, after all deductions were made, a sufficiently formidable residuary total - at least 15,000 books published each year in the English language. For languages other than English, the returns have been even more formidable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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