An Experiment in Criticism.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1961. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. In this volume, Lewis proposes that the quality of books should be measured not by how they are written, but by how they are read. To do this, the author describes two kinds of readers. One is what he calls the "unliterary", and the other the "literary". Lewis suggests that a "quality book" may be defined as one that someone – anyone – will re-read. Some such books will be judged by "highbrow" readers as being of poor quality; this view is deficient in that it has failed to appreciate those qualities which have merited re-reading. Item #28751
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