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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that n...Samuel Johnson John DawsonGreek-English Lexicon of the New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls short of its domain. One can depend upon him. The oth...Joseph Conrad W.(William) H.(Henry) HudsonGreen Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest Print: Book
1900-1945'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow read a short paper of H.M. Wallis on some points in ...Charles Evans William Henry HudsonGreen Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical ForestPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:- 27.1.37
    Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
6. Members th...		Edgar Castle Marc ConnellyGreen PasturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:- 27.1.37
    Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
6. Members th...		Francis E. Pollard Marc ConnellyGreen PasturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:- 27.1.37
    Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
6. Members th...		Reginald H. Robson Marc ConnellyGreen PasturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:- 27.1.37
    Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
6. Members th...		Unidentified members of the XII Book ClubMarc ConnellyGreen PasturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'On many nights I would sit beside the kitchen fire, listening to my father reading or telling tales. There was no wireless then and no gramophones, and our fireside talk...Desmond Malone Joseph Sheridan Le FanuGreen TeaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Followed by the thought that, had I not been reading Ethel Mannin's "Green Willow", which gives a vivid description of this development, perhaps I would not have taken s...Ethel ManninGreen WillowPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Saadye's [for Saabye's] Journal in Greenland'Mary Shelley Hans Egede SaabyeGreenland : being Extracts from a Journal kept in ...Print: Book
1900-1945'The book Grey and Scarlet is wonderful. Letters of Army Nurses from all over the world. Thousands of people can rise to the greatest heights of heroism.'Vere Hodgson Ada HarrisonGrey and Scarlet: Letters from the War Areas by Ar...Print: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "Grey Granite" by Grassic Gibbon. Hasn't the richness of "Sunset Song" but has much of its verve. One is ever conscious of a certain rank liveliness abo...William Soutar Lewis Grassic GibbonGrey GranitePrint: Book
1900-1945' "I have been reading Grey Wethers," said the Marquis- "a magnificent book. The descriptions of the downs are as fine as any in the language. Such power! Such power! ...Lord Curzon Vita Sackville-WestGrey WethersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Joseph Conrad, the author, writes: I don’t remember any child’s book. I don’t think I ever read any; the first book I remember distinctly is Hugo’s "Travailleurs...Joseph Conrad Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmGrimm's Fairy TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Francophile complex. I have not yet had time to comp...Winifred Agnes Moore Theodore de BanvilleGringoirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Once I planned that we should spend the evening reading Slowacki, and all day I kept looking forward to it. After supper we sat as usual in the living room. I began with...Aniela Zagorska Juliusz SlowackiGrob AgamemnonaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a first rate specimen of bad biographical writing'George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGross CophtaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I must begin by thanking you for the little book of satirical pieces ["Groteski"] which I read with great enjoyment and in that sympathetic mood which your work arouses ...Joseph Conrad Bruno WinawerGroteskiPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau...Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Immanuel KantGroundwork of the Metaphysic of MoralsPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert ...Virginia Woolf Sigmund FreudGroup PsychologyPrint: Book


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