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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I lunched with him ["a high dignitary of the Anglican Church"] at Shepheard's; and , leaving him for half and hour, during which I rushed home and read all up in Baedek...Ronald Storrs Karl BaedekerEgypt
1850-1899
1900-1945		Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Karl GroosEinleitung in die AesthetikPrint: Book
1900-1945Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume. There are detailed notes with page references pasted into the volume opposite the ti...Vernon Lee Karl GroosDer Aesthetische GenussPrint: Book
1900-1945Some marginal annotation in pencil and ink in English on the following pages only: 15, 17, 28.Vernon Lee Karl GroosDie Lehre vom umfassenden SeeleneinPrint: Book
1900-1945Only one marginal gloss ('good') written in pencil on one page only. Note that this book does not have page numbers.Vernon Lee Karl GroosDie Befreiungen der SeelePrint: Book
1900-1945Considerable marginalia, mainly in English but some in German, throughout the volume. Detailed notes on the rear inside cover.Vernon Lee Karl GroosDas Seelenleben des KindesPrint: Book
1900-1945'At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll to his daughters: "Then one could look at life and af...Jack Lawson Karl Marx Print: Book
1900-1945[Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact....Alice Foley Karl Marx Print: Book
1850-1899"[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..."George Bernard Shaw Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Saintsbury [who became a Tory journalist] read Marx as an undergraduate ...'George Saintsbury Karl MarxunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945[Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na...Bill Naughton Karl Marx Print: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies Karl Marx Print: Book
1900-1945'[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic li...John Brown Karl Marx Print: Book
1900-1945'[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu...Jack Ashley Karl Marx Print: Book
1900-1945'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo...James Clunie Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m...Herbert Hodge Karl Marx Print: Book
1900-1945'In 1925 Ifan Edwards was driven by unemployment to read Das Kapital in the public library. "It took him about four hundred pages of close print to come to the crux of hi...Ifan Edwards Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book
1900-1945[George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could talk slickly about dialectical materialism. His own d...Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me ...Walter Citrine Karl Marx[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise...Patrick McGill Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book


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