RUSSIAN BOOK PUBLISHING
A total of 1,100,000,000 volumes, or 7500 volumes a minute, were published during 1957 in the Soviet Union in the 85 languages used in various parts of the country. French writers are the most widely read foreign authors in Russia, with Victor Hugo and Jules Verne heading the list. In recent years a great effort has been made to introduce twentieth-century French authors to the Soviet puolic, and the works of Roger Martin du. Gard, Francois Mauriac, Vercors, Saint-Exupery, and Louis Aragon are very popular. The foreign author whose books enjoy the biggest circulation is Jack London; other favourites among American writers are O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, and Mark Twain. Most popular Eng-
lish authors are Dickens, H. G. Wells, Daniel Defoe, Swift, Galsworthy, and Shakespeare. Arab literature is also being increasingly translated and published in Russia. Over the last two years 2,383,000 volumes have been published;—(U.N.E.S.C.O.)
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28536, 15 March 1958, Page 10
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