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Brooklyn author studies Tolstoy’s literary life, complex heroine in ‘Creating Anna Karenina’

November 19 | John B. Manbeck Special to the Brooklyn Eagle

Bob Blaisdell, professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, celebrated publication of...

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