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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustive study of France ? something fundamental I mean. ...Winifred Agnes Moore Albert GuerardFrench Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle ...Print: Book
1900-1945'For relief I have had a life of Orage ? by someone who evidently had a great admiration for him, but only knew him personally during the last phase ? the ?New English We...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownLife of OragePrint: Book
1900-1945'To return to my reading at the moment ? I have another book of Ford Madox Ford?s ? oh ! a lovely one, called ?Provence?. He died this year ? how sad he must have been ...Winifred Agnes Moore Ford Madox FordProvencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Stanley sent me a wonderful book of Gollanzc ?The Musical Companion? edited by Bacharach. Did you meet Bacharach ever? Perhaps not. He was one of the ?New Age? crow...Winifred Agnes Moore A.L. BacharachThe Musical CompanionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?. The book is more interesting to me for the light it throws on L?on Daudet than on its subject ? a person (C...Winifred Agnes Moore Leon DaudetClemenceauPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just completed Havelock Ellis? ?From Rousseau to Proust?, a kind of psychological survey of the ?subjective? writers of the period between the two named. It wa...Winifred Agnes Moore Havelock EllisFrom Rousseau to ProustPrint: Book
1900-1945'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new book there is; ?The Development of Modern France? (1...Winifred Agnes Moore D.W. BroganThe Development of Modern FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new book there is; ?The Development of Modern France? (1...Winifred Agnes Moore Edna FerberA Peculiar TreasurePrint: Book
1900-1945"Many thanks for 'Mankind in the Making'. Like 'Anticipations' it is very wonderful, and very uneven."Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsMankind in the MakingPrint: Book
1900-1945'When I landed at Newhaven a few days ago, the first printed thing that caught my eye was a newspaper placard: "Vice in the Potteries: Shocking Details." It was a London...Arnold Bennett Vice in the Potteries: Shocking DetailsPrint: newspaper placard
1900-1945'Just before leaving Paris I read the first instalment of "F. of G." in Pearson?s & thought it extremely good, barring a few minime verbal infelicities. It cost me 2 fr...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsThe Food of the GodsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s Crime and Punishment? English translation damnable; but it is a...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradRomancePrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s "Crime and Punishment"? English translation damnable; but it is...Arnold Bennett Fyodor DostoyevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'And that reminds me that your last Strand story was really admirable. A little faint towards the end I thought, but fundamentally damn good. 'Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsThe Country of the BlindPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of "Scepticism of the Instrument". I don?t, however, think that your third indictment of the instrument is quite new.' Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsScepticism of the Instrument
1900-1945"I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of 'Scepticism of the Instrument'. I don?t, however, think that your third indictment of the instrument is quite new." Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsScepticism of the InstrumentUnknown
1900-1945'Many thanks for the book. [A Modern Utopia.] If it was a novel I could say something useful about it, but as it isn?t, I don?t know that I can. The latter half of it is...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsA Modern UtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The only real seizable fault that I can find in Kipps is the engagement to Helen, which entirely failed to convince me. . . . After agreeing with myself that I read th...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsKippsPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . By the way your Westminster Gazette article was magnificent, & filled me with holy joy.'Arnold Bennett H. G. Wells'The Schoolmaster and the EmpirePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'. . . now I see the announcement of your articles in the Tribune . . . 'Arnold Bennett H. G. Wells Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical


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