Download or read book The Implied Reader written by Wolfgang Iser and published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When the present flurry of works on theory of narrative fiction comes to an end ... this seems likely to be one of the survivors."-Frank Kermode, Times Literary Supplement."Well-written, scholarly, perceptive... . A basic framework for a rational theory of literary effects and responses based on the novel."-Library Journal.