The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public by Richard D. Altick

The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public

Richard D. Altick

440 pages first pub 1957 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The English Common Reader was the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of how the ordinary Englishman became a reader. A rich social history as well as a history of the English reading public, the book has become a classic. It will conti...

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