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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna".....Charles Spencer Chaplin Mark Twain[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emer...Christopher Grieve Mark TwainunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny books. Over the years we had Conrad and Wodehouse, Eric...family of Rose GambleMark Twain[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945MS notes and marginalia throughout book, including the thoughts of Sir George Otto Trevelyan on visiting the grave who had died young while climbing p.425.George Otto Trevelyan Mark TwainA tramp abroadPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction to this great American 'wit' [?] Readings from his w...Ernest E. Unwin Mark Twain Print: Book
1900-1945'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction to this great American 'wit' [?] Readings from his w...Katherine Evans Mark Twain Print: Book
1900-1945'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction to this great American 'wit' [?] Readings from his w...Elizabeth Ann Smith Mark Twain Print: Book
1900-1945'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction to this great American 'wit' [?] Readings from his w...Mary Hayward Mark Twain Print: Book
1900-1945'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction to this great American 'wit' [?] Readings from his w...Reginald Robson Mark Twain Print: Book
1900-1945'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a gener...Howard R. Smith Mark TwainPersonal Recollections of Joan of ArcPrint: Book
1900-1945'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a gener...Howard R. Smith Mark TwainPersonal Recollections of Joan of ArcPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on he talked laughingly of the cheap editions he had been wont to buy of Mark Twain's masterpieces, and spoke reminiscently of reading these books when he was on t...Joseph Conrad Mark TwainunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tom Sawyer’s ingenious antics are at present my principal book and bible. I have also found a red 6/- novel called “Impertinent Reflections”, which might fill up any odd...Edmund Blunden Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom SawyerPrint: Book
1850-1899'He first read Twain in London in the late eighties. "Innocents Abroad"(1869) was all the rage. But his description of life in America-some of his short stories as well...Joseph Conrad Mark TwainLife on the MississippiPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Innocents Abroad'Sarah Good Mark TwainThe Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progres...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have had a weekend's C.B. Unshaven on parade ... from six to ten on Saturday and Sunday nights I had to double 600 yards to the guardroom, to report, every half-hour, ...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Mark Twain (pseud.)The Adventures of Tom SawyerPrint: Book
1850-1899Speaking of the passion of his neighbouring Argentinian landowner, Don Gregorio Gandara, for a range of coloured horses, Hudson writes: 'It reminds one of the famou...William Henry Hudson Mark Antony LowerOld Speech and Old Manners in SussexPrint: Book
1700-1799Volume annotated in Dawson's own hand. Includes correction to Preface and a contents list.John Dawson Marquis of Chatele, Paul HayThe Politics of FrancePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818: 'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks." I think it a most amusing book ... I have not ye...Elizabeth Barrett Marquise de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
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B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook Marr MurrayBible Prophecies and the Present WarPrint: Book


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