Download or read book Why Read? written by Mark Edmundson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholar and author of Teacher: The One Who Made a Difference argues that questions about the uses of literature are essential to a literary education and that reading not for only training and education, but also for pleasure, can change students' lives for the better. Reprint.