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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'Many thanks for the book which has given me the greatest of pleasure. I have always had a great admiration for Sir Alfred [Lyall] whose verse and prose appeal strongly t...Joseph Conrad Alfred Comyn Lyall Print: Book
1900-1945'Thanks my dearest fellow for the Che[k]hov vol. He is too delightful for words. Very great work. Very great. Do tell your wife of my admiration that grows and grows with...Joseph Conrad Anton ChekhovThe Cook's Wedding and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you, my dearest for all the books you have presented me with, in particular for Fredro, qui m'a donné un plaisir extrème à lire et à regarder les images.'Joseph Conrad Alexandr FredroTrzy po TrzyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for the book. Reading it gave me very great pleasure.'Joseph Conrad Jean FayardOxford et Margaret Print: Book
1900-1945'The book you sent me was a great pleasure to me. Some of the ships I knew personally.'Joseph Conrad Basil LubbockThe Colonial ClippersPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Abdication" arrived four of five days ago. How short the book is and how much you have managed to put into it. As you may imagine I read it at once.' Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerAbdicationPrint: Book
1900-1945'I must thank you for the volume which has just arrived.[...]. What I have felt and thought is more suitable for talk, warm and many coloured than for the cold blue tint...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettFriday Nights: Literary Criticism and Appreciatio...Print: Book
1900-1945'I was very happy to receive "La Musique et les nations" yesterday. I read the Debussy immediately and with the greatest of pleasure.' Joseph Conrad Gérard Jean-AubryLa Musique et les nationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I would have written to you before about my delight in "The Conquest of Granada" if it had not been for the beastly swollen wrist which prevented me from holding the pen...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamThe Conquest of New Granada, being the Life of Gon...Print: Book
1900-1945'I wonder what you think of my long silence after the receipt of your play ["A Tale of Young Lovers", late May]? I was just fiinishng a novel and putting off looking a...Joseph Conrad Cecil RobertsA Tale of Young Lovers: A Tragedy in Four ActsPrint: Book, playscript
1900-1945'I dictate these few words to thank you most heartily for your letters and especially for your little tale which I have read with absolute delight and appreciation of eve...Joseph Conrad Bruno WinawerSlepa latarka (Dark Lantern)Print: Book
1900-1945'For the last two days I have been reading "The [Forsythe] Saga" which makes a wonderful volume.[...] How fresh "The Man of Property" reads. For that book I have a specia...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Forsythe SagaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read with the greatest of interest your communications to the "Times [Literary Supplement]" in the Dumas-Maquet affair. All this story is quite new to me.'Joseph Conrad Robert GarnettThe Dumas Maquet Case (and) Dumas and Maquet Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'When your book ["The Problem of China"] arrived we were away for a few days. Perhaps [...] I should have acknowledged the receipt at once. But I preferred to read it be...Joseph Conrad Bertrand RussellThe Problem of ChinaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I hasten therefore to tell you without a moments delay what did mean to write (or have perhaps written) that the book ["Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas"] in its hum...Joseph Conrad Clarence AndrewsOld Morocco and the Forbidden AtlasPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for D. [David]'s little tale ["Lady into Fox"]. Its the most successful thing of the kind I have ever seen.'
[Hence follow ten lines of praise.] 		Joseph Conrad David GarnettLady into FoxPrint: Book
1900-1945'I consider myself highly privileged by the possession of an inscribed copy of the limited edition of the "Preludes"; and thanking you for the beauty and music therein co...Joseph Conrad John DrinkwaterPreludes, 1921-1922Print: Book
1900-1945'Ever so many thanks for the little book of fantasy and charm and sharp irony seasoning the tragic story of poor Loveday, who had no other name.[...] Its a gem in its way...Joseph Conrad Fryniwyid Tennyson JesseThe White Riband; Or a Young Female's FollyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've lately read nothing but Marcel Proust.'Joseph Conrad Marcel ProustSwann's Way (Du coté de chez SwannPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the volumes you sent me I was much more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation.'
[Hence follows another page and a half of com...		Joseph Conrad Marcel ProustSwann's Way (Du coté de chez SwannPrint: Book


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