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VOA NEWS: RUSSIAN AUTHOR ON AMERICAN READING LIST
From: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
Date: 20080411
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Marcus Jackman
Russian author Leo Tolstoy made connections through his writings... connections across classes, across cultures, and across centuries. Almost 100 years after his death, more than a hundred people crowded a library meeting room in Muncie, Indiana, this week... to talk about Tolstoy's works, history, and legacy. As Marcus Jackman reports, it's all part of a national literary program called The Big Read.
The Big Read is designed to encourage reading, but also to draw communities together, by having everyone read the same book at ...
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