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6:30 pm

“Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award” at the Boston Public Library

November 2, 2017 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Boston Public Library, Copley Square – 2nd Floor, Abbey Room, 700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116 United States
Free

The Associates of the Boston Public Library cordially invite you to their Hundred-Year Retroactive Book Award, a competition that weighs the enduring literary merits of three bestsellers, all published in 1917. Contenders for the prize are T.S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations, Mohandas Gandhi's Third Class in Indian Railways, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s His Last […]

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