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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'"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question from interviewer] '- who, them? I enjoy travel books, ...Peter FlemingNews from TartaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - "Mein Kampf". Oh, I lik... unknown[Travel books]Print: Book
1900-1945'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - "Mein Kampf". Oh, I lik...John BluntunkownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - "Mein Kampf". Oh, I lik...Adolf HitlerMein KampfPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - "Mein Kampf". Oh, I lik...Daphne Du MaurierRebeccaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - 'Mein Kampf'. Oh, I lik...Margaret MitchellGone with the WindPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Happy World" is a very charming description of the best bits of the old landed way of life. The race as a whole seems to me to emphasise only its bad characteristics, s... unknownHappy WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'H. Williamson's "Norfolk Farm", for the detail making me feel I had lived those hard days myself.'H WilliamsonNorfolk FarmPrint: Book
1900-1945'"This Above All", Eric Knight. Believe me I lived and smelt through that book all the horrors of nights and days of bombing and Dunkirk conveys and putrid dressings and ...Eric KnightThis Above AllPrint: Book
1900-1945'Dubliners, James Joyce. First time I read it I was not much impressed, but on reading them again I found much that I had missed. They are immensely real and intimate ske...James JoyceDublinersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Since the war began I have read less because my working hours have been lengthened and ARP duties and various social activities leave me less leisure. My reading howver ... unknown[political and social books]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read less now than before the war, owing to pressure of work - of a mental nature - and consequently prefer to spend most of my leisure in exercise. Thus what I read n... unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Since the war began I have read less, chiefly because I am more tired and have less time. I never read until bed-time nowadays and I generally fall asleep before I've re... unknown[lighter literature]Print: Book
1900-1945'I can no longer settle to fiction to anything like the extent I did before the war. Could read nothing but Jane Austen's Emma when war broke out. I read about the same a...Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Housekeeping pupil (voluntarily) reading the paper over my shoulder yesterday morning.' newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Lady Chatterly's Lover is the absurdest pornography I have ever read, but The Man Who Died is one of the finest pieces of literature I remember reading and the idea stri...D H LawrenceLady Chatterley's LoverPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lady Chatterly's Lover is the absurdest pornography I have ever read, but The Man Who Died is one of the finest pieces of literature I remember reading and the idea stri...D H LawrenceThe Man Who DiedPrint: Book
1900-1945'His novels rather date, but his essays are vivid and stimulating. Red Trousers comes to the mind as being real hot stuff.' D H LawrenceRed TrousersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ends and Means contains much that is good and new. Also his essays are quite attractive, his novels are utter tripe.'Aldous HuxleyEnds and MeansPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like his Brave New World but I do not think any of his other books are much good, in fact they bore me profoundly.'Aldous HuxleyBrave new worldPrint: Book


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