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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 have read your prodigious & all-embracing "Love?s Pilgrimage". I should very strongly resent its being censored in England. It deals candidly, here and there, with su...Arnold Bennett Upton SinclairLove's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1900-1945'I anticipate that you will permit me to say a very few words about the article in your last issue criticizing the editorial conduct of the "English Review"'. Arnold Bennett SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am obliged to you for the "Hortulus Anime". I have not had time to examine it carefully, but so far as I have seen it is an admirable piece of work & I congratulate y...Arnold Bennett unknownHortulus AnimePrint: Book
1900-1945 'I send by parcel post two other jobs: One is "Roget?s Thesaurus". This is a book that I use every day, fairly roughly. Please bind it how you like, bearing this rou...Arnold Bennett Dr Peter Mark RogetThesaurusPrint: Book
1900-1945'I lay in my sleeping bag reading Mr.Richard Aldington's cynical book "Death of a Hero". it is an admirable work but I would have preferred Mr. P.G.Wodehouse on this occa...Frank Smythe Richard AldingtonDeath of a HeroPrint: Book
1900-1945'The only account that I have seen of the accident, in the "Figaro", is inaccurate in every detail except the number of wounded.' Arnold Bennett FigaroPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds me of "Dominique".' Arnold Bennett Andr GideIsabellePrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds me of "Dominique".' Arnold Bennett Eugene FromentinDominiquePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have got the plaquette of St. L?ger L?ger?s poems. Very interesting. The St. Catherine?s Press is terrible for misprints!' Arnold Bennett Alexis Saint-L?ger L?gerElogesPrint: Book
1900-1945I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it is more marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Les F...Arnold Bennett Fyodor Dostoyevsky Les Freres Karamazov Print: Book
1900-1945I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecency but because it its dullness, poorness, and badness...Arnold Bennett Victor MargueritteLa GarconnePrint: Book
1900-1945"Je relis 'Tom Jones'. En effet, c'est ?patant". [I am re-reading "Tom Jones". In fact, it is astonishing'] Arnold Bennett Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1900-1945'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage wilderness of the Five Towns, and that the first li...Arnold Bennett W.D. HowellsunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage wilderness of the Five Towns, and that the first li...Arnold Bennett Russell LowellunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In reply to Mr. Archer?s letter, the authors? procedure, as regards the year 1860, was this. They practically read through the whole of Punch for that year, and chose a...Arnold Bennett PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I return the proofs by registered bookpost. I have read them with care. I have of course confined my observations to misprints, punctuation, points of phraseology, & s...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsMarriageManuscript: Codex
1900-1945Published in The Woman Worker, newspaper: 'As I sat engaged with the very charming adventures of Zobeide, in the "Arabian Nights", and just as I had reached the spot w...Ethel Carnie N AArabian NightsPrint: Book
1900-1945A reminiscence of reading John Ruskin's autobiography, Praeterita (pub 1881-6) at work. Published in The Wheatsheaf: 'Long ago, with the engine groaning below the wood...Ethel Carnie John RuskinPraeteritaPrint: Book
1900-1945I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it is more marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Les F...Arnold Bennett Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have before me as I write a photo by Sir Aurel Stein showing the body of a man of Turfan buried fifteen centuries ago, and it is hard to belive that he is even dead. ...Martin Louis Alan Gompertz ('Ganpat') Sir Aurel SteinunknownPrint: Unknown


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