The author's purpose in this passage is to
read the passage from "how should one read a book? "
the thirty-two chapters of a novel - if we consider how to
read a novel first-are an attempt to make something as
formed and controlled as a building: but words are more
impalpable than bricks; reading is a longer and more
complicated process than seeing.
o criticize.
o entertain
o inform
o persuade.