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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stansfield. The comparison suggested by Fielding in his b...Blanche Ridges Edwin ArnoldLight of AsiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stansfield. The comparison suggested by Fielding in his b...Pattie Stansfield DhammapadaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Dear Lady London,the Lawrence letters & Hogarth Living Poets have arrived......I am not half-way thro' it yet, as it takes turn with Shakespeare and Gibbon, & catching t...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell D H LawrenceLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Dear Lady London,the Lawrence letters & Hogarth Living Poets have arrived......I am not half-way thro' it yet, as it takes turn with Shakespeare and Gibbon, & catching t...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell Dorothy WellesleyHogarth Living PoetsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Last night by a log-fire, I seemed the loneliest most contented man in the world. I was reading Romeo and Juliet and beginning this letter to you. I had a kitten & my te...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1900-1945 In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s papers were excessively rude about it, the third (Sun...Arnold Bennett Sunday ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945 A very fine book indeed, recently published, is Siegfried Sassoon’s 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'. I thought that I could never tolerate another war book, but this o...Arnold Bennett Siegfried SassoonMemoirs of an Infantry OfficerPrint: Book
1900-1945I have now read 'Mr Moffat'. If the author is very young I regard it as a pretty sound book. Fundamentally true throughout, with a good plot well constructed and improvi...Arnold Bennett Chester Francis CobbMr MoffatPrint: Book
1900-1945 Thanks for your letter & 'The Polyglots'. I regret not to be able to agree with you as to the latter. I have read it, & though it is loose & contains some merely silly...Arnold Bennett William GerhardiThe PolyglotsPrint: Book
1900-1945Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philippe’s 'Bubu de Montparnasse'. And Roger Martin du Gard’s...Arnold Bennett Maurice BarresJardin de BérénicePrint: Book
1900-1945Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philippe’s 'Bubu de Montparnasse'. And Roger Martin du Gard’s...Arnold Bennett Charles Louis PhilippeBubu de MontparnassePrint: Book
1900-1945Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philippe’s 'Bubu de Montparnasse'. And Roger Martin du Gard’s...Arnold Bennett Roger Martin du GardJean BaroisPrint: Book
1900-1945Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philippe’s 'Bubu de Montparnasse'. And Roger Martin du Gard’s...Arnold Bennett Colette ChériPrint: Book
1900-1945Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philippe’s 'Bubu de Montparnasse'. And Roger Martin du Gard’s...Arnold Bennett Anna DostoevskyDostoevsky portrayed by his wife(?)Print: Book
1900-1945 I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'. They are marvellous. Thank Gertrude for me. . . I am also dieting...Arnold Bennett F.A. HornibrookThe Culture of the AbdomenPrint: Book
1900-1945 I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'. They are marvellous. Thank Gertrude for me. . . I am also dieting...Arnold Bennett Eat and Grow Thin: The Mahdah MenusPrint: Book
1900-1945 I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book is very good. It is full of brains, & very provocati...Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsThe World of William ClissoldPrint: Book
1900-1945 I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book is very good. It is full of brains, & very provocati...Arnold Bennett John GalsworthyThe Silver SpoonPrint: Book
1900-1945I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you are much more likely to be right than I am. 'A Gent...Arnold Bennett Ivan Alexeyevich BuninThe Gentleman from San FranciscoPrint: Book
1900-1945I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you are much more likely to be right than I am. 'A Gent...Arnold Bennett Ivan Alexeyevich BuninThe VillagePrint: Book


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