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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'There is any amount of masterly pages. I have not read all of them as you may imagine. [...] Yes the "virtue" of the book is great.' Interspersed and following are sev...Joseph Conrad H. (Herbert) G. (George) Wells Mankind in the MakingPrint: Book
1900-1945'An excellent volume. Last time I saw you , you spoke of it slightingly-and this only adds to my envy of your astounding gift-for if this is the sort of thing you throw o...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells Twelve Stories and a DreamPrint: Book
1900-1945'You must think me a brute. I don't even attempt to palliate an inexcusable delay in thanking you for "Leonora".[...] Yes. you can do things; you present them with a skil...Joseph Conrad (Enoch) Arnold BennettLeonoraPrint: Book
1900-1945'A thousand thanks for the article you devote to me in the "Revue". I read it with lively interest, profound attention and much gratitude.' Thence follow six more lines...Joseph Conrad Kazimierz WaliszewskiUn cas de naturalisation littéraire: Joseph ConradPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have to thank you for Morel's pamphlet which reached me from L'pool a few days ago.There can be no doubt that his presentation of the commercial policy and the adminis...Joseph Conrad E.(Edward) D.(Dene) MorelThe Congo Slave State.Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Next to tell you that "H.[Hernando] de Soto" is most exquisitely excellent: your very mark and spirit upon a subject that only you can do justice to-with your wonderful...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamHernando de Soto: together with an account of one ...Print: Book
1900-1945'The reading of the "White Bird", apart from the sheer pleasure your work always gives, had a special interest for me as demonstrating once more your wonderful power to d...Joseph Conrad J.[James] M.[Matthew] Barrie The Little White Bird Print: Book
1900-1945'It only remains for me to add that I am on page 24 of "Ivan the Terrible"; that is to say that I have been comforted 24 times by complete forgetfulness of my difficultie...Joseph Conrad Kazimierz WaliszewskiIvan le Terrible Print: Book
1900-1945'Arrived: A book with a Chinese title of Scandinavian authorship translated by Mrs Reynolds. I am touched and pleased indeed by the kind`attention. Have looked into it al...Joseph Conrad Henri Jean François BorelWu Wei: A Phantasy Based on the Philosophy of Lao-...Print: Book
1900-1945'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls short of its domain. One can depend upon him. The oth...Joseph Conrad W.(William) H.(Henry) HudsonThe London Sparrow in Kith and Kin: Poems of Anima...Print: Book
1900-1945'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls short of its domain. One can depend upon him. The oth...Joseph Conrad W.(William) H.(Henry) HudsonGreen Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest Print: Book
1900-1945'My real object in writing is to make a confession-which is to take back a whole cartload of goatisms which I used at Fritham and elsewhere in speaking of a certain great...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1900-1945'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words or so - Bruce Richmond is generous...'Virginia Woolf Lewis MelvilleThe Thackeray CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words or so - Bruce Richmond is generous...'Virginia Woolf F. G. KittonThe Dickens CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the way the Mother gave him some of Miss Sorabji to read and he finds it as I did, very good – “splendid” he said in parts and is inclined to prophesy a great success...Rudyard Kipling Cornelia SorabjiunknownUnknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913: 'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles & Recollections of an Indian Official? It is a charming book to read in, but the ...Edward Morgan Forster Sir William SleemanRambles and Recollections of an Indian OfficialPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cramb, and some Bernhardi, and I am sure we could not ...Edward Morgan Forster John Adam CrambGermany and England
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913: 'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official? It is a charming book to read in, but th...E. M. Forster Sir William SleemanRambles and Recollections of an Indian OfficialPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913: 'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official? It is a charming book to read in, but th...E. M. Forster E. William KnightonThe Private Life of an Eastern KingPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 5 October 1913: 'It's a good little sketch I think, and shows you can do a catastrophe if you choose. I never guessed he had murdered hi...E. M. Forster Forrest Reidunidentified 'sketch'Unknown


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