Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects of modern civilization on the individual. - Summary by Joseph Tabler
Chapters
1 Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Civilisation 1-5 31 min 2 Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Civilisation 6-9 33 min 3 Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Civilisation 10 16 min 4 Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Civilisation 11 12 min 5 Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. The Disgrace of the Nation 1-2 20 min 6 Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. The Unpopularity of the First Person Singular 1-5 38 min 7 Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. The Habit of Not Letting One's self Go 1-3 23 min 8 Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. The Habit of Analysis 1-2 30 min 9 Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Literary Drill in College 1-3 28 min 10 Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Literary Drill in College 4-10 46 min 11 Book 1 Interferences with the Reading Habit. Libraries. Wanted: An Old Fashioned Librarian 27 min 12 Book 2 Possibilities 39 min 13 Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. I: Unscientific 42 min 14 Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. II: On Reading for Principles 38 min 15 Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. III: Reading Down Through. IV: Reading for Facts 31 min 16 Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. V: Reading for Results. VI: Reading for Feelings 44 min 17 Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. VII: Reading the World Together A 31 min 18 Book 3 Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind. VII: Reading the World Together B 37 min 19 Book 4 What To Do Next 55 min