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

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945(1) 'I am at present reading a book which you would enjoy, "The letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple.... They lived in Cromwell's time, and the letters are ...Clive Staples Lewis Dorothy OsborneLetters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William TemplePrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am at present reading a book whose scene is set in Oxford and which tells one a good deal about the University (not Tom Brown), "Lady Connie" by Mrs. Humphrey Wa...Clive Staples Lewis Mary Augusta WardLady ConniePrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am awfully bucked about "Twelfth Night": I thought at the time you remember, that Heath Robinson's illustrations were absolutely perfect — quite as good as Rackh...Clive Staples Lewis William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am now, through the week, reading Scott's "Antiquary". I suppose you have read it long ago: I am very pleased with it, especially the character of the Antiquary ...Clive Staples Lewis Walter ScottThe AntiquaryPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am reading at present, what do you think? Our own friend "Pilgrim's Progress". It is one of those books that are usually read too early to appreciate, and perhap...Clive Staples Lewis John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am reading such a splendid book in German, by a man called Chamisso "Peter Schlemihl's Wundersame Geschichte" (The Amazing Adventures of Peter Schlemihl). It is ...Clive Staples Lewis Adelbert von ChamissoPeter Schlemihls Wundersame GeschichtePrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am still at The Newcomes...' (2) 'Talking about stodge, I finished "The Newcomes" before leaving home, and certainly enjoyed the end better than any parts excep...Clive Staples Lewis William Makepeace ThackerayThe Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable FamilyPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have also bought a 7d. Macmillan book by Algernon Blackwood called "Jimbo, a fantasy". Although you have never mentioned it, I dare say you know there is such a ...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon BlackwoodJimbo, a FantasyPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have been reading again the second volume of Malory, especially the part of the "Sangreal" which I had forgotten. With all its faults, in small doses this book i...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas MaloryLe Morte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have just started the "Argonautica" the Greek poem on the same subject,and though I haven't got very far — only in fact to the launching of the Argo — it is shap...Clive Staples Lewis Apollonius RhodiusArgonauticaPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have now made a good start on my second volume of Macaulay, which is admirable. What a nice man James must have been!' (2) 'I am nearly through Macaulay Vol. II,...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas Babington MacaulayThe History of England from the Accession of James...Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have read today ... some 10 pages of "Tristram Shandy" and am wondering whether I like it. It is certainly the maddest book ever written.... It gives you the imp...Clive Staples Lewis Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I wish you would get that Academy book which one always finds in a dentist's waiting room so that we could compare notes. If you do you must particularly notice "T...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]The Royal Academy IllustratedPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I wonder does the "Wayfarer" series publish my latest discovery - the most glorious novel (almost) that I have ever read.... It is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "House wit...Clive Staples Lewis Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven GablesPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I wonder what a book called "Letters from Hell" published at 1/- by Macmillan would be like?' (2) 'I have written up for "Letters from Hell" and it ought to be her...Clive Staples Lewis Valdemar Adolph ThistedLetters from HellPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'Just before supper I finished the 2nd volume of Mackail's "Life of W.M." There is nothing nicer than to lay aside a book with a certain satisfaction at getting it ...Clive Staples Lewis John William MackailThe Life of William MorrisPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'Never, never get a book bound. You will gather from this that "Tristan" has arrived and is a complete and absolute failure.... True, it is some consolation to find...Clive Staples Lewis Joseph BedierLe Roman de Tristan et Iseut, renouvele par Joseph...Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'The book you refer to is "How to Form a Literary Taste" by Arnold Bennett: the edition is pretty but the book is not of any value. The very title — as if you set o...Clive Staples Lewis Arnold BennettLiterary Taste: How to Form It with Detailed Instr...Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'This week's new purchase consisted of ... "John Silence" in the 7d. edition.... It fairly swept me off my feet, so that on Saturday night I hardly dared to go upst...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon BlackwoodJohn Silence, Physician ExtraordinaryPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'This week's new purchase consisted of Milton's "Paradise Lost" — in the same edition as my Mandeville.... Don't you love the Leopard witches? How you will love Mil...Clive Staples Lewis John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book


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