Table of Contents

Preface

PART I .  THE ACTIVITY OF READING

CHAPTER ONE  To the Average Reader　

 1   2   3   4 

CHAPTER TWO  The Reading of "Reading"　

 1   2   3   4   5  

CHAPTER THREE  Reading is Learning　

 1   2   3   4   5   6 

CHAPTER FOUR  Teachers, Dead or Alive　

 1   2   3   4   6 

CHAPTER FIVE  The Defeat of the Schools　

 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8 

CHAPTER SIX  On Selfhelp　

 1   2   3   4  

PART II .  THE RULES

CHAPTER SEVEN  From Many Rules to One Habit　

1  2   3   4 –  5 –  6 

CHAPTER EIGHT  Catching on From the Title　

1  2   3   4   5 

CHAPTER NINE  Seeing the Skeleton　

1  2 –  3 –  4   5   6   7 

CHAPTER TEN  Coming to Terms　

 1   2   3   4   5   6 

CHAPTER ELEVEN  What's the Proposition and Why　

 1   2   3   4   5   6   7 

CHAPTER TWELVE The Etiquette of Talking Back　

 1   2   3   4   5  

CHAPTER THIRTEEN  The Things the Reader Can Say　

 1   2   3   4   5 

CHAPTER FOURTEEN  And Still More Rules　

 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8 

PART III .  THE REST OF THE READER'S LIFE

CHAPTER FIFTEEN  The Other half　

 1   2   3   4   5  

CHAPTER SIXTEEN  The Great Books　

 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8 

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN  Free Minds and Free Men　

 1   2   3   4 

APPENDIX:

GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD

Imaginative Literature

HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

NATURAL SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY

GATEWAY TO THE GREAT BOOKS

IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE

CRITICAL ESSAYS

MAN AND SOCIETY

NATURAL SCIENCE

MATHEMATICS

PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS

INDEX