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The Experience of Reading

Name: The Experience of Reading
Author: Philip Davis
ISBN: 9780203359471

by Philip Davis

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Overview

Davis shows that books matter most on a personal level and that reading offers a great deal more than a mere escape into fantasy. Using the modern novel as a starting point, he takes in Ben Jonson, Bunyan, Byron, Wordsworth and George Eliot.