So if you are interested in choosing an edition that would be more useful for reading literary works, the 1972 edition or its reprints appear to be the best choice. Originally written in 1940 and first published by Simon & Schuster in 1972, How to Read a Book introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how. The exposition in Part Three of the different ways to approach different kinds of reading materials-practical and theoretical books, imaginative literature (lyric poetry, epics, novels, plays), history, science and mathematics, social science, and philosophy, as well as reference books, current journalism, and even advertising-is the most extensive addition that has been made. The preface to the second edition mentions what has been added since the 1940 edition. How to Read a Book by Mortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Van Doren and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at .uk. Id no more scribble all over a first edition of Paradise Lost than Id. in 1967 with a different subtitle) or the 1972 edition.īased on this, the choice is between two versions: the 1940 edition by Adler (and reprints thereof) or the 1972 edition by Adler and Van Doren (or reprints thereof). You know you have to read between the lines to get the most out of anything. Adler, wrote in co-operation with the writer and editor Charles Van Doren (incidentally the son of poet and literature professor Mark Van Doren, who died in 1972).Īll other editions I am aware of are reprints of either the 1940 edition (e.g. There was only one revision, namely the one that the original author, Mortimer J. As far as I know, How to Read a Book was first published in 1940 this is what the preface to the 1972 edition states.
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