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CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

About This Book

Preface by David C. Downing and Michael G. Maudlin

PART ONE: ON THE ART AND JOY OF READING

Why We Read

How to Know If You Are a True Reader

Why Children’s Stories Are Not Just for Children

Literature as Time Travel

Why Fairy Tales Are Often Less Deceptive Than ‘Realistic’ Stories

The Case for Reading Old Books

On the Role of the Marvellous

Growing Up Amidst a Sea of Books

On Encountering a Favorite Author for the First Time

Why Movies Sometimes Ruin Books

How to Murder Words

Saving Words from the Eulogistic Abyss

The Achievements of J. R. R. Tolkien

On the Dangers of Confusing Saga with History

On Two Ways of Traveling and Two Ways of Reading

PART TWO: SHORT READINGS ON READING

Word Combinations

Sincerity and Talent

Prose Style

Not in but Through

Pleasure

Originality

The Up-to-Date Myth

Keeping Up

Wide Tastes

Real Enjoyment

Literary Snobs

Re-reading Favorites Each Decade

Reading and Experience

Free to Skip

Free to Read

Huck

The Glories of Childhood—Versus Adolescence

Jane Austen

Art and Literature

Art Appreciation

Look. Listen. Receive.

Talking About Books

The Blessing of Correspondence

In Praise of Dante

On Alexandre Dumas

The Delight of Fairy Tales

Language as Comment

Communicating the Essence of Our Lives

Mapping My Books

On Plato and Aristotle

Imagination

If Only

On Shakespeare

On Hamlet

On Leo Tolstoy

Advice for Writing

Good Reading

Appendix: Journal Exercises for Reflecting on Your Reading Life

Footnotes

About the Author

Also by C. S. Lewis

Also Available From Harpercollins

About the Publisher