C. S. Lewis's classic analysis of the experience of reading.
IThe Few and the Many1IIFake Characterisations5IIIHow the Few and the Many use Pictures and Music14IVThe Reading of the Unliterary27VOn Myth40VIThe Meanings of Fantasy50VIIOn Realisms57VIIIOn Misreading by the Literary74IXSurvey88XPoetry95XIThe Experiment104Epilogue130Appendix: A note on Oedipus142