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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 do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradChancePrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsBealbyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Spender [J.A. Spender, editor of the Westminster Gazette] has recently introduced me to Thucydides & I think he is the greatest of all historians. Indeed I need say no ...Arnold Bennett Thucydides[Histories]Print: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Gustave FlaubertL'Education SentimentalePrint: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Gustave FlaubertUn Coeur SimplePrint: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Anatole FranceLa Rotisserie de la reine PédauquePrint: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Anatole FranceThaisPrint: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Charles Louis PhilippeBubu de MontparnassePrint: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Lytton StracheyEminent VictoriansPrint: Book
1900-1945'The weather is damnable, especially when one has neither car nor taxi. I read ¼ of "Nicholas Nickleby" yesterday because I had no brain left. It wasn’t so bad in its c...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading f...Katherine Evans A.C CurtisSmall Garden Useful, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I send you my affectionate thanks for the book ["The Plattner Story and Others"] and for the terms of the inscription on the fly-leaf; for the more I know of you--in our...Joseph Conrad H.G. Wells The Plattner Story and OthersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have pleasure in stating that Mr. T.S. Eliot (whom I understand to be a candidate for a commission in the Quartermasters or Interpreters Corps) has an intimate knowled...Arnold Bennett T. S. EliotunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Do you read the Sunday Times? It is a poor paper, but has great military articles by Spenser Wilkinson, one of the foremost European authorities. This man does not in ...Arnold Bennett Spencer WilkinsonSunday Times articlesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Have you read Dolly Richardson’s "Backwater"? If not, do. It is a book.'Arnold Bennett Dorothy M. RichardsonBackwaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'[...] but now since I've received the "Sat. Review" I've something to write about. The "German Tramp" is not only excellent[...] but it is something more. Of your short ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamIn a German Tramp Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'But as to "Buta" it is altogether and fundamentally good, good in matter--that's of course--but good wonderfully good in form and especially in expression.' Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamButaPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Have you seen the last vol of Mrs Garnett's Turgeniev? There's a story there. "Three Portraits" really fine. Also "Enough" worth reading.' Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevThe Jew and Other StoriesPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'This is a very good number. The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a Bishop]'Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsThe Soul of a BishopPrint: Book
1900-1945'This is a very good number. [The New Statesman]. The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a Bishop]'Arnold Bennett The New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical


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