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C.S. Lewis's classic 'Experiment in Criticism' springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that 'good reading', like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the opinions of others. “An Experiment in Criticism” originally appeared in the print book An Experiment in Criticism, published in hardcover by Cambridge University Press in 1961. The text in this edition is taken from the 2012 paperback edition published by Canto.