Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life
Author: Pan Macmillan Editorial Team
ISBN: 9781250849106
Price: Rs. 819.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of reading.Heather Cass White’s Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading, and encourages readers to trust in the value of the exhilaration and fascination such reading entails. Rather than arguing for the moral value of reading or the preeminence of literature as an aesthetic form, Books Promiscuously Read illustrates the irreplaceable experience of the self that reading provides for those inclined to do it.Through three sections―Play, Transgression, and Insight―which focus on three ways of thinking about reading, Books Promiscuously Read moves among and considers many poems, novels, stories, and works of nonfiction by authors ranging from Cervantes, George Eliot, Thylias Moss, Mary Shelley, and more. The prose is shot through with quotations reflecting the way readers think through the words of others.Books Promiscuously Read is a tribute to the whole lives readers live in their books, and aims to recommit people to those lives. As White writes, “What matters is staying attuned to an ordinary, unflashy, mutely persistent miracle; that all the books to be read, and all the selves to be because we have read them, are still there, still waiting, still undiminished in their power. It is an astonishing joy.”
Edition details: English, 320 pages. Reference ISBN: 9781250849106.
About the Author
Pan Macmillan Editorial Team is an acclaimed author whose published works are celebrated internationally for their insight, narrative skill, and enduring reader appeal.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- General / Adult
- Language & Format
- English • Paperback
- ISBN Reference
- 9781250849106
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press / Pan Macmillan
- Pan-India Delivery
- Dispatches in 24–48 Hours across India
What is this book about?
The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of reading.Heather Cass White’s Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading, and...
Who should read this book?
Recommended for readers who enjoy quality books and are looking for genuine, well-crafted literature by Pan Macmillan Editorial Team.
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- Published by St. Martin's Press / Pan Macmillan.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 320.
Catalog Description
The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of reading.Heather Cass White’s Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading, and encourages readers to trust in the value of the exhilaration and fascination such reading entails. Rather than arguing for the moral value of reading or the preeminence of literature as an aesthetic form, Books Promiscuously Read illustrates the irreplaceable experience of the self that reading provides for those inclined to do it.Through three sections―Play, Transgression, and Insight―which focus on...
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