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- ID
- c155
- Title
- 'Foreword' [to The Reader's Digest Omnibus]
- Genre
- Essay
- Page Count
- 4
- Word Count
- 1450
- Publication Year
- 1952
- Document Types
- Full-text Online
- Literary Criticism
- Introductions, Forewards & Prefaces
A reflection on the role that the Reader's Digest may have played in combating modern "temptations towards a life of easy illiteracy."
Bates mentions in particular articles about the volcano Krakatoa and astronomy, as well as a piece by H.L. Mencken.
In The Reader's Digest Omnibus (London, 1952, pp. ix-xii, attached).
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