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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'[...] and there was only time [in Damascus] to acquire a little [non-Egyptian] Arabic by wandering about rather than by book-work and to contract a sharp attack of fever...Ronald Storrs Anatole Francel'Ile des Pingouins Print: Book
1900-1945'I am sorry to say Sir E. [Eldon Gorst, British Agent and Consul General] has been rather bad this last week: a touch of the sun it is thought. I play the piano to him of...Ronald Storrs Robert BrowningunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am sorry to say Sir E. [Eldon Gorst, British Agent and Consul General] has been rather bad this last week: a touch of the sun it is thought. I play the piano to him of...Ronald Storrs Edward Gibbon?The Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Madame de Polignac gave me in 1913 a little yellow volume of poems entitled "Les Vivants et les Morts", and at her house I met next year the divinely, the almost frighte...Ronald Storrs Anna de NoaillesLes Vivants et les MortsPrint: Book
1900-1945'After a less than frugal luncheon (no ice aboard) I made an attempt to read "The Egoist" (a tattered copy of which lay on the desk) but gave it up and lay, practically f...Ronald Storrs George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945'Talked twenty minutes with two Egyptian officers who seemed a little out of the picture, and to bed, after fifty or sixty pages of "Mr Britling".'Ronald Storrs Herbert George WellsMr Britling sees it throughPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rose 7.15 and seem to have spent day writing, going on with Henry James's "Ambassadors", finishing "Britling", but most of all sleeping.'Ronald Storrs Henry JamesThe AmbassadorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'On with "Ambassadors" and some of Jane Harrison's "Ancient Art and Ritual": which makes me fear I shall never rise to the rarer heights of folklore and anthropology.'Ronald Storrs Jane Ellen HarrisonAncient Art and RitualPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bed 10.30, nearing end of wonderful "Ambassadors".'Ronald Storrs Henry JamesThe AmbassadorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'But having time to write up this, with a letter or so, to fifnish the amazing "Ambassadors", as well as "Embarrassments" (I and III especially good) the unusual "Other H...Ronald Storrs Henry JamesEmbarrassmentsPrint: Book
1900-1945'But having time to write up this, with a letter or so, to finish the amazing "Ambassadors", as well as "Embarrassments" (I and III especially good) the unusual "Other Ho...Ronald Storrs Henry JamesThe Other HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'But having time to write up this, with a letter or so,to fifnish the amazing "Ambassadors", as well as "Embarrassments" (I and III especially good) the unusual "[The] Ot...Ronald Storrs Leslie StephenunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'But having time to write up this, with a letter or so,to fifnish the amazing "Ambassadors", as well as "Embarrassments" (I and III especially good) the unusual "[The] Ot...Ronald Storrs William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the morning a little "Inferno". James's "Washington Square" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] "Fumée"; but Russian books are always a slight effort t...Ronald Storrs Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the morning a little "Inferno". James's "Washington Square" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] "Fumée"; but Russian books are always a slight effort t...Ronald Storrs Henry JamesWashington SquarePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the morning a little "Inferno". James's "Washington Square" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] "Fumée"; but Russian books are always a slight effort t...Ronald Storrs Ivan TurgenievFumée Print: Book
1900-1945'For my own War reading I found, as the popularity of "The Times Broadsheets" proved, that the essential was, remoteness from actuality. Henry James, by his sublime irrel...Ronald Storrs Henry JamesunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'For my own War reading I found, as the popularity of "The Times Broadsheets" proved, that the essential was, remoteness from actuality. Henry James, by his sublime irrel...Ronald Storrs William BlakeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [?of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs John Richard GreenA A Short History of the English People Print: Book
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [?of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs Thomas Babington MacaulayunknownPrint: Book


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