I own quite a few books published by Dover (about two dozen) and this is easily my favorite. Pinter covers all the basics of group, ring, and field theory and reads like a novel. Like a novel, the book is partitioned into fairly short, single topic chapters that actually facilitate sitting down and reading it as if it were a piece of literature. Each chapter is concluded with exercises and selected solutions are available in the back of the book, something that you don't always find in Dover books. A downside to the readability is that this book doesn't make the best reference, but for anyone learning abstract algebra for the first time, Pinter provides an excellent introduction.<br><br>Unrelated to the content is the print quality. Many Dover math books appear to be scanned reprints and, as such, are a little lacking in print quality. This is not one of those books; the text is as clear as you would expect from any other textbook.