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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'29th March, Tuesday. ?La Gar?onne? V. Marguerite. 30th March, Wednesday. These last few days I have been reading Marguerite?s ?La Gar?onne?. I am disappointed. ...Gerald Moore V. MargueriteLa Gar?onnePrint: Book
1900-1945'I remember years ago reading the life of Charles Kingsley who has been called "a very perfect gentleman". Yet in that book, collated by his wife, one can read how, just ...Stuart Wood Frances KingsleyCharles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his ...Print: Book
1900-1945'15th September 1928. Reading Zola today (Une Page D?Amour). A book surprisingly different from, and somehow weaker than ?La Terre?, but also one of the Rougon...Gerald Moore Emile ZolaUne Page d'AmourPrint: Book
1900-1945'16th September 1928 I am now re-reading Chesterton?s ?History of the United States?. I have never been able to acquire the habit of taking notes when reading a boo...Gerald Moore Cecil ChestertonHistory of the United StatesPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th September 1928. The Geneva conference between the six powers has ended in the happy decision that the Rhineland evacuation question may now be discussed. Good G...Gerald Moore Le JournalPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about...Gerald Moore W.W. JacobsThe CastawaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about...Gerald Moore W.W. JacobsDeep WatersPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about...Gerald Moore Cecil ChestertonThe History of the United StatesPrint: Book
1900-1945'19th September 1928 (Wednesday) I have got nearly all my books home from the office now. It is a lengthy job, bringing them in two?s and threes, but I have had enoug...Gerald Moore Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'20th September 1928 (Thursday). I note that one of the Swiss Cantons has passed a law enforcing the sterilisation of ?mentals?, this brings a long discussed question on...Gerald Moore Le JournalPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'22nd September 1928 (Saturday). I have started to read Kipling?s ?Letters of travel? again. I am very fond of this book although the slabs of jaunty, impatient, imper...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingLetters of TravelPrint: Book
1900-1945'22nd September 1928 (Saturday). The cat is out of the bag over the Anglo-French naval pact. One of the Hearst papers, ?The New York American? has got hold of a letter...Gerald Moore The New York AmericanPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'28th September 1928 (Friday). I have been reading an article on Ibsen by Thomas Vladesco in the ?Mercure de France?. The writer sets out to prove Ibsen a bon bourge...Gerald Moore Thomas Vladesco[article on Henrik Ibsen]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'30th September 1928 (Sunday) We saw the Clichy party to their tram, then [illegible] Henry and I had a coffee at the Express du Havre and finally parted for home at ...Gerald Moore Romain RollandJean ChristophePrint: Book
1900-1945'1st October 1928 (Monday). Dug further into ?Jean Christophe? in the Luncheon hour. Am thoroughly enjoying this great book. I hope the other volumes are as good as ...Gerald Moore Romain RollandJean ChristophePrint: Book
1900-1945'2nd September 1928 (Tuesday) Sunday?s ?Observer? suggests a clean break with the line of diplomatic action brought to light by the revelations regarding the Anglo-Fre...Gerald Moore Romain RollandJean ChristophePrint: Book
1900-1945'2nd September 1928 (Tuesday) Sunday?s ?Observer? suggests a clean break with the line of diplomatic action brought to light by the revelations regarding the Anglo-Fre...Gerald Moore The ObserverPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'3rd October 1928 (Wednesday). Late to work, naturally. Although tired, put in a good day?s work and returned home hungry as a hunter. Finished ?Letters of Travel?...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingLetters of TravelPrint: Book
1900-1945'6th October 1928 (Saturday). So I finish my day, after an abundant dinner reading ?Taras Boulba? (Gogol) - translated by A. Potogky- Stchekotikhina. Scripta Mane...Gerald Moore Nikolay Vasilevich GogolTaras BoulbaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 13th October 1928. After dinner went with Mme. and George to Romainville to hear Georges Pioch on Tolsto?. [...] Queerly enough, though Pioch himself is a To...Gerald Moore Leo TolstoyunknownPrint: Book


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