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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'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing acco...Helen Rawlings Anatole FranceLife of Joan of Arc, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing acco...Elizabeth Marriage Anatole France Print: Book
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
1850-1899'I'll post A. [Anatole] France tomorrow. How good it is!'Gertrude Bell Anatole FranceunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The latest volume of M.Anatole France purports, by the declaration of its title- page, to contain several profitable narratives. The story of Crainquebille's encounte...Joseph Conrad Anatole FranceCrainquebille, Putois, Riquet, et plusieurs autres...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
1900-1945Meanwhile I have been enjoying myself reading Anatole France and the philosophy of M. Jérôme Coignard. What a charming creation. 'Il meprise les hommes avec tendres...Freya Stark Anatole FranceLes Opinions de Jérôme CoignardPrint: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Anatole France (pseud.)[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds me of "Dominique".' Arnold Bennett Andr GideIsabellePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am surprised to find that though suspicious of surrealist dogma I like some of their work, notably and unexpectedly [Andre] Bretons's [italics] Nadja [end italics]. At...Antonia White Andre BretonNadjaPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, Will...Edward Morgan Forster Andre ChevrillonDans L'IndePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for me to feel that I belonged to the elect who had read...Bonar Thompson Andre Gide[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am particularly glad to have, from you, your new book, with its inscription. I thank you very much. For years I have known a number of your friends, and of course I ...Arnold Bennett Andre GideNouveaux Pr?textesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read 'The Pretty Lady'? It was while reading 'Isabelle' that the form of this novel suddenly presented itself to me, and I began to write it at once. Yet noth...Arnold Bennett André GideIsabellePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.'Virginia Woolf Andre GideunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading Gide's memoirs, very disappointing I think, so far; I have found hardly anything that pleased me except the marble that had been dropped into the hole in th...Vita Sackville-West Andre GideMemoirsUnknown
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant...Virginia Woolf Andre GidePages de Journal, 1929-1932Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf Andre GideunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 28 July 1939: 'Reading Gide's diaries, recommended by poor death mask Eddie [Sackville-West]. An interesting knotted book. Its queer that diaries now pullulate. No...Virginia Woolf Andre GideAndre Gide's Journal 1885-1939Print: Book


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