The power of the written word is the subject of out show this week. Literature has the ability to take a reader any where, any when, and to see the world through the eyes of men long dead. This 
selection comes from a preamble to a textbook for junior high school students.
“The Three Joys of Reading” (1919) by William H. Elson and Christine M. Keck
The Reader
TRT: 12:23
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