Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
by Robert Alter
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0671706276
- ISBN 13
- 9780671706272
- Seller
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Touchstone Books, June 1990. Paper Back . Very Good. A distinguished critic rescues literature from the ivory tower and reestablishes reading as a personal source of complex pleasure and insight. Octavo. Trade paperback with slight curl to textblock Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. Sticker residue back cover. [250 pages]
Reviews
On May 17 2021, a reader said:
Robert Alter is highly intelligent, learned, and Scholarly. This book is very informative yet challenging (i.e., difficult at times) but well worth reading.
I love his ending which goes :
Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough structured common ground in the text itself so that we can talk to each other, even sometimes persuade each other, about what we read; and that many-voiced conversation, with which, thankfully, we shall never have done, is one of the most gratifying responses to literary creation, second only to reading itself.
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Details
- Bookseller
- A Cappella Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 293622
- Title
- Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
- Author
- Robert Alter
- Format/Binding
- Paper Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671706276
- ISBN 13
- 9780671706272
- Publisher
- Touchstone Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- June 1990
- Pages
- 250
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A Cappella Books is a full service used, new & out-of-print bookstore located in the heart of Atlanta's bohemian district, Little 5 Points, since 1989. We stock a general selection of some 20 to 30, 000 paperbacks & hardcovers, ranging from the common to the quite scarce. Our specialties reflect the personality of our neighborhood and, to varying degrees, our staff. But don't be fooled, we really have something for almost everybody who loves books. Come see us.
A Cappella Books is a full service used, new & out-of-print bookstore located in the heart of Atlanta's bohemian district, Little 5 Points, since 1989. We stock a general selection of some 20 to 30, 000 paperbacks & hardcovers, ranging from the common to the quite scarce. Our specialties reflect the personality of our neighborhood and, to varying degrees, our staff. But don't be fooled, we really have something for almost everybody who loves books. Come see us.
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...