Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ten Talks on the Reader's Art
What is reading? What is the reader? Why do we read aloud? What is the reader's place among artists? Is the reader's place equal in dignity to that of the painter, the sculptor, the musician? Is Henry Irving as much to Shakespeare as Patti is to Verdi? Was Char lotte Cushman as great an artist as Jenny Lind? Is Paderewski more to Chopin than Bernhardt to Sardou? To answer these questions intelligently we must first note the fact that literature is the most valuable work of man. Literature is the wealth of the ages. It is man's golden heritage. All that man has felt, thought or done is recorded in the libraries of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
