1st Edition

Experience Of Reading

By Philip Davis Copyright 1991
332 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1991. This book is written with the intent to reach serious readers in and outside a university through joint mental contact with serious writers of the present and the past. To get whatever there is to be got out of this book, a reader should also read or have read (at least) Bernard Malamud’s A New Life, Saul Bellow’s Herzog and Doris Lessing’s The Marriages Between Zones... Read more
Chapter 1 THE REALITY OF READING; Chapter 2 THE CART AND THE HORSE (I); Chapter 3 THE CART AND THE HORSE (II); Chapter 4 ANCIENT AND MODERN (I); Chapter 5 ANCIENT AND MODERN (II); Chapter 6 'EFFECTIVE ENGLISH';

Biography

Philip Davis