Record Number: 20155
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
As for me I am reading Wells on history! I think it wickeder than I did: but it's an amazing piece of book-making. When he gets past clerical & medieval times he's quite sound from a Left point of view till he gets to Napoleon! But [underlined] how [end underlining] jealous he is of all great men from Pericles and J. Caesar to everyone else. You see him saying: "No! I couldn't do what Alexander did. So I'll do for [underlined] his [end underlining] reputation!" And the joke of it is that he damns every one of them - Solomon, Mahomet, Alexander, Julius Caesar & the rest for being untrustworthy with women! I've never seen Satan so splendidly reprove sin.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Until: 9 Mar 1923
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:city: Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:17 Dec 1873
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer
Religion:Catholic
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Outline of History, The
Genre:History
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:20155
Source:Ford Madox Ford
Editor:Sondra J. Stang
Title:Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, The
Place of Publication:Bloomington
Date of Publication:1993
Vol:n/a
Page:177
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Ford Madox Ford, Sondra J. Stang (ed.), Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, The, (Bloomington, 1993), p. 177, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20155, accessed: 21 December 2024
Additional Comments:
Additional author, Stella Bowen; additional editor, Karen Cochran.
