The books will not be merely a compilation of a thinker's most famous passages, their 'greatest hits', but will rather offer a series of clues or keys that will enable to reader to go on and make discoveries of their own. authors have been asked to select ten or so short extracts from a writer's work and look at them in detail as a way of revealing their central ideas and thereby opening the doors onto a whole world of thought. Its starting point is that in order to get close to what a writer is all about, you have to get close to the words they actually use and be shown how to read those words. How to Read, by contrast, brings the reader face to face with the writing itself in the company of an expert guide. Most beginners' guides to great thinkers and writers offer either potted biographies or condensed summaries of their major works. Granta's new How to Read series is based on a very simple, but novel, idea.
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