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Noah Porter offers an extended guide to choosing books and reading them with attention, interest and judgment. Beginning with the relationship between a book and its reader, he considers how habits of reading shape understanding, opinion and character.
The chapters move through history, biography, novels, poetry, literary criticism, scientific writing and religious books. Porter combines practical suggestions about concentration and reading courses with judgments about the aims and influence of different kinds of literature. Newspapers, periodicals and the organization of a personal library also receive separate treatment.
An appendix supplies a classified catalogue of recommended works, making the volume both an argument about reading and a record of nineteenth-century literary priorities. The religious and moral framework is integral to Porter’s advice. This complete 1881 edition expands a work first copyrighted in 1870 and retains its appendix, index and original publishing material.