About this book
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects of modern civilization on the individual. - Summary by Joseph Tabler
Chapters (19)
1Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Civilisation 1-5
2Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Civilisation 6-9
3Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Civilisation 10
4Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Civilisation 11
5Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. The Disgrace of the Nation 1-2
6Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. The Unpopularity of the First Person Singular 1-5
7Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. The Habit of Not Letting One's self Go 1-3
8Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. The Habit of Analysis 1-2
9Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Literary Drill in College 1-3
10Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Literary Drill in College 4-10
11Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Libraries. Wanted: An Old Fashioned Librarian
12Book 2 Possibilities
13Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. I — Unscientific
14Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. II — On Reading for Principles
15Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. III — Reading Down Through. IV — Reading for Facts
16Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. V — Reading for Results. VI — Reading for Feelings
17Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. VII — Reading the World Together A
18Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. VII — Reading the World Together B
19Book 4 What To Do Next
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