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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
 
1900-1945When I reached home I found a man with a qasida in praise of Harold in his hand. 'He has broken the horns of the wicked', it says. I wonder if this has any relation...Freya Stark Anon Anon[Arabic qasida (praise poem) in praise of Harold I...Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945Harold and I are the subject of song in Hureidha at present. Old Abdulla the watch-mender came some evenings ago to present me with an ode in my honour. He had it o...Freya Stark Abdulla The watch-mender of Huraidha[Arabic qasida (praise poem) in praise of Freya St...Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945I have spent a meandering day taking last pictures in the town with the Qadhi, who read out the carved inscriptions of the tombs, and standing with upturned palms w...Freya Stark Anon Anon[unknown tomb inscriptions and Qu'ranic supplicati...Unknown
1900-1945It is a huge citadel, nearly a mile in length I should guess, on a low and stony ridge going east and west [...] the inscription is inside the southern gateway and ...Freya Stark Anon Anon[unknown Sabaean inscription at Naqb al-Hajar]Unknown
1900-1945Great black blocks, roughly cut, show the seawall protecting the citadel's approach; and on a ledge east of the causeway the two inscriptions in the rock are clear ...Freya Stark Anon Anonunknown inscriptionsUnknown
1900-1945I can remember at the age of fourteen the tranquillity which a first reading of the Phaedon, the death of Socrates, gave me - a widening of the bounds of life which...Freya Stark Moses MendelssohnPhaedonPrint: Book
1900-1945I was also pained but amused at the pink, paper- bound novels that went about: I asked my neighbour to read me a paragraph, and this was it: "'Good God,' said Susann...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unknown romance novel]Print: Book
1900-1945The people in the beds near me also kept quiet during the days before the operation, when I lay busily reading about South Arabia, and this delicacy I have always r...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][book on South Arabia]Print: Book
1900-1945From Mukalla I made my way with a small caravan of donkeys, inland to the wadi Du'an [...] But in Du'an I sickened, and in the great wadi Hadhramaut I very nearly d...Freya Stark VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1900-1945From Mukalla I made my way with a small caravan of donkeys, inland to the wadi Du'an [...] But in Du'an I sickened, and in the great wadi Hadhramaut I very nearly d...Freya Stark VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1900-1945'As Conrad read for an hour or to before turning in, our one lamp, of the cheap paraffin variety, was hung on a nail close to his bunk, and was generally kept alight ...Joseph Conrad Hartley WithersWar and Lombard StreetPrint: Book
1900-1945What a bloody world we are living in! To read the papers makes one quite sick and here one cannot help feeling that the horror over poor little Dollfuss is largely ...Freya Stark unknown unknownunknown Italian newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945I have been rather feeble and depressed all summer, and it will probably do a lot of good to walk about the hills of Arabia. I have been reading books about it and ...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][unknown book about Arabia]Print: Book
1900-1945Last night M. Besse read Anatole France—the charming tale of Celestin and Amicus, the hermit and the fawn.Freya Stark Anatole France'Amycus et Celestin'Print: Book
1900-1945Last night M. Besse read Anatole France—the charming tale of Celestin and Amicus, the hermit and the fawn.Antonin Besse Anatole France'Amycus et Celestin'Print: Book
1900-1945He [M. Besse] took me and Mrs Ingrams for a longish walk yesterday, over the crater edge and down to the sea...M. Besse and I bathed regardless of the sharks, of wh...Antonin Besse Maurice MaeterlinckMonna VannaPrint: Book
1900-1945He [M. Besse] took me and Mrs Ingrams for a longish walk yesterday, over the crater edge and down to the sea...M. Besse and I bathed regardless of the sharks, of wh...Freya Stark Maurice MaeterlinckMonna VannaPrint: Book
1900-1945P.S. I recommend to you 'Zarathustra'. It is not a book for the weak or the sentimental but a great book. I have been fortifying myself with it in moments of weakne...Freya Stark Friedrich NietzscheAlso sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Kei...Print: Book
1900-1945Luckily I have Virgil with me - I read him on my terrace in the afternoon when the sun has gone off. Nothing could be more comforting, more serenely strong; he has ...Freya Stark VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1900-1945I thought I was better yesterday and that a little walk would improve matters and went and sketched by the old wall - came back for lunch, lay on my terrace reading...Freya Stark VirgilAeneidPrint: Book


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