Recovering the Lost Art of Reading: A Quest for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful

Reading Is a Lost Art
Chapter 1: Is Reading Lost?
Chapter 2: What Have We Lost?
Chapter 3: Why Consider Reading an Art?

Reading Literature
Chapter 4: What Is Literature?
Chapter 5: Why Does Literature Matter?
Chapter 6: What Does Literature Offer?
Chapter 7: Reading Stories: Tell Me a Story
Chapter 8: Reading Poems: Songs of the Soul
Chapter 9: Reading Novels: Come Away with Me
Chapter 10: Reading Fantasy: A Far Journey
Chapter 11: Reading Children’s Books: Once Upon a Time
Chapter 12: Reading Creative Nonfiction: To Tell the Truth
Chapter 13: Reading the Bible as Literature: Words of Delight

Recovering the Art of Reading
Chapter 14: Recovery through Discovery
Chapter 15: Truth in Literature
Chapter 16: The Moral Vision in Literature
Chapter 17: Beauty in Literature
Chapter 18: Discovering Literary Excellence
Chapter 19: Freedom to Read
Chapter 20: Reading Good Books
Chapter 21: Calling and Creativity
Chapter 22: Literature and the Spiritual Life: Over and Above