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Why read? / Mark Edmundson.
LIBRA Special PN70 .E36 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edmundson, Mark, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
- Literature.
- Literature--Study and teaching (Higher).
- United States.
- College students--Books and reading--United States.
- College students.
- College students--Books and reading.
- Education, Higher--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Books and reading--United States.
- Books and reading.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 146 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2004.
- Summary:
- In this important book reconceiving the value and promise of reading, acclaimed author Edmundson dramatizes what the recent identity crisis of the humanities has effectively obscured: that reading can change one's life for the better.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1582344256
- OCLC:
- 54374615
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