READING AND THE DEPRESSION
Leading Auckland booksellers state that the depression has driven readers to a study of economic works and in particular to books dealing with the commercial and economic affairs of Russia. One city bookseller says that the most popular books have been those dealing directly with the depression and any book which professed to offer a solution of the present state of world affairs was keenly sought. This was especially true of a book which treated of the depression with reference to New Zealand. Russia evidently occupied a prominent place in the minds of readers this year. Books on the Soviet five-year plan were demanded by all classes of readers, but there was a wide field of enquiry for all aspects of the Russian Republic. The city librarian, Mr. John Barr, says the demand at the public library for books on economic questions had been so great that special arrangements had had to be made to cope with it. The same applied to books on Russia.
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Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 9, 4 December 1931, Page 7
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