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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945 It is not an article at all. [‘Adrien van de Venne’ in Studies (Dublin), June 1923] It is a romance, a drama, an epic; and puts you in the grande lignée des collectionn...Arnold Bennett Thomas BodkinAdrien van de VennePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astonishing skill and verve, but too diffuse by far in its movem...Arnold Bennett Robert NicholsGolgotha & Co. Print: Book
1900-1945I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astonishing skill and verve, but too diffuse by far in its movem...Arnold Bennett Aldous HuxleyOn the MarginPrint: Book
1900-1945Your book on Dostoevsky (for which many thanks) has made a very considerable impression upon me. And yet you say almost nothing about his technique, which interests me c...Arnold Bennett André GideDostoevskyPrint: Book
1900-1945After reading what you said about 'The Eternal Husband', I read that story again. Je le trouve un peu manqué, surtout vers le fin. Arnold Bennett Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Eternal HusbandPrint: Book
1900-1945'From one point of view I've nothing but admiration for the ending of "Shadows" ["Fraternity"].Its naturalness is appalling. Of course it can be attacked but its quality ...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyFraternityManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'[...] the gratuitous atrocity of, say, "Ivan Illyitch"[sic] or the monstrous stupidity of such a thing as "The Kreutzer Sonata" for instance; where an obvious degenerate...Joseph Conrad Leo TolstoyThe Death of Ivan Illyich and other storiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'But "La leçon bien apprise" is really quite....And what is wrong with "Les Etrennes de Mlle. Doucine"? I don't like it most, but I think it most suitable owing to its hu...Joseph Conrad Anatole FranceLes Etrennes de Mlle. Doucine, and La Leçon bien a...Print: Book
1900-1945'There are books one seems to have read before, and books one doesn't want to read, books that one reads with annoyance, pleasure, exasperation or wonder; but this, your ...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsA Poor Man's HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have tasted, sipped, and consumed the delectable nectar prepared surely with the milk of human kindness and spiced with your wit. [...]; This is delightful [...].' He...Joseph Conrad E.[Edward] V. [Verrall] LucasOver Bemerton's: An Easy-going Chronicle Print: Book
1900-1945'[...]the 2 vols of my uncle's memoirs which I have by me, to refresh my recollections and settle my ideas.' [while Conrad was starting to write his own memoirs].Joseph Conrad Tadeusz BobrowskiPamietniki Print: Book
1900-1945'I have the complete text of "The Isle" in my possession.[...]. The short passage [on Giovanni de Procida, 13th century Sicilian doctor and instigator of the Sicilian Ves...Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasThe Isle of TyphoeusManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Does the A[natole] F[rance] next book consist of the proofs you've let me see? And what on earth is one to write about it?' Joseph Conrad Anatole FranceL'Ile des PingouinsManuscript: Sheet, Proofs
1900-1945'The India book is most interesting. Nevinson is a dear. What is happening now there only shows that nations as well as men may find themselves in a bitterly false positi...Joseph Conrad Henry Woodd NevinsonThe New Spirit in IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Both Jessie and I are very much struck with "[A] Fisher of Men".'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyA Fisher of MenPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the event I have given myself a holiday for the morning,n...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Book
1900-1945"Which reminds me I noticed an extract from Ben Jonson the other day which said 'the third requisite in our poet, or maker, is imitation... to follow him (Auden, in my ca...Philip Larkin Ben JonsonextractUnknown
1900-1945'Katherine Mansfield is a cunt, but I share a hell of a lot of common characteristics with her. I should like to read her letters again. The trouble with her seems to be ...Philip Larkin Katherine MansfieldLetters and diaryUnknown
1900-1945'By the way! 'Jimmy & the Desperate Woman' is fucking good! 'After he had given his lecture (it was on Men in Books and Men in Life: naturally men in books came first)......Philip Larkin D. H. LawrenceJimmy and The Desperate Woman, in The Woman Who Ro...Print: Book
1900-1945'As Lawrence (+ sign of cross - not christian cross - no devil down in Hell: [Christian cross] (!!)) said 'The reason the English Middle Classes chew every mouthful 30 ti...Philip Larkin D. H. LawrenceunknownPrint: Unknown


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