the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Julien Benda : Le Bergsonisme ou une Philosophie de la Mobilit

Some marginal notes in French throughout. Given by the author to Vernon Lee.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee      Print: Book

Julien Benda : unknown

18 December 1921: 'Roger's visit [on 17 December] went off specially well [...] Roger had Benda in his pocket & read a passage aloud'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry      Print: Book

Julien Benda : La Trahison des Clercs

[Whether this contains evidence of any particular reading experience is unclear] 'Presumably these writers had never read the French critic Julien Benda, who nine years earlier had prophesied in a famous book, "La Trahison des Clercs", that mankind was heading for the greatest war which the world had ever experienced.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

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