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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 copy of your book which I have read with the greatest of interest and pleasure.'Joseph Conrad James Johnston AbrahamA Surgeon's Log: Being Impressions of the Far EastPrint: Book
1900-1945'Infinite thanks for the honour and for the book. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing until I had read those pages you have been so good as to dedic...Joseph Conrad Violet HuntThe House of Many MirrorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'That's first rate stuff. I have read all but two of the stories, which'll have their turn this afternoon and I shall take up your copy on Monday myself and deliver it to...Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerThe General PlanPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have this moment received your very kind letter with the enclosure of verse for which I hasten to send you my warm thanks. The verse is very genuine and has appealed t...Joseph Conrad David Morton?Old Ships Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before for Mrs Soskice's book. I remember it had a good press when it first appeared. It certainly has a quality but it is very much like the...Joseph Conrad Juliet M. Soskice (Hueffer)Memoirs from Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist...Print: Book
1900-1945'It is years since I have read "Candide" of course in French. I must tell you I have been immensely pleased by the particular quality of this translation.'
[Henc...		Joseph Conrad François-Marie Arouet VoltaireCandidePrint: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Stendhal [pseud. i.e. Marie-Henri Beyle]Vie de NapoléonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Gaspard GourgaudJournal de Ste. Hélène 1815-1818Print: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Marcellin PelletNapoléon à l'île d'ElbePrint: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Paul GruyerNapoléon, roi de l' île d'ElbePrint: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Jean RappMémoires écrits par lui-mêmePrint: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Léon Lanzac de LaborieParis sous NapoléonPrint: Book
1900-1945'It my be that I failed to understand "The Ascending Effort", but I did not mean to treat Bourne disrespectfully. [But] you will admit that Bourne's writing in its slight...Joseph Conrad George Bourne [pseud. of George Sturt]The Ascending EffortPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Henry Tippett] read us a great mixture of things, from history (in which he was steeped) and historical romances such as Ford Madox Ford's "Lady with Bright Eyes" [s...Michael Tippett Alfred, Lord TennysonIdylls of the KingPrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Henry Tippett] read us a great mixture of things, from history (in which he was steeped) and historical romances such as Ford Madox Ford's "Lady with Bright Eyes" [s...Michael Tippett Ford Madox FordLadies Whose Bright EyesPrint: Book
1900-1945'When I was a bit older he read to me from Edward Lear's "Nonsense Songs and Stories". "Mr Yongy Bongy Bo", "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" and "The Old Man from the Kingdom ...Joseph Conrad Edward LearNonsense Songs and StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'At other times he would tell me about the Malay Archipelago and the Malays and show me pictures in A. R. Wallace's book about that part of the world. [...] He would rea...Joseph Conrad Alfred Russel WallaceThe Malay Archipelago The Land of the Orang-Utan a...Print: Book
1900-1945'I am pretty sure that J[oseph] C[onrad] read it [the bound Christmas annual of "Boy's Own Paper"] after I had gone to bed because I found little spills of cigarette ash ...Joseph Conrad Boy's Own AnnualPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'He enjoyed stories that were really funny but had no time for anything that was indecent though he was not a prude and often bought "La vie parisienne" and, for light re...Joseph Conrad La Vie ParisiennePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'He enjoyed stories that were really funny but had no time for anything that was indecent though he was not a prude and often bought "La vie parisienne" and, for light re...Joseph Conrad PunchPrint: Serial / periodical


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