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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
 
1900-1945Monday 20 January 1941: 'Reading Gide. La Porte Etroite [1909] feeble, slaty, sentimental.'Virginia Woolf Andre GideLa Porte EtroitePrint: Book
1900-1945'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published s...Edward Morgan Forster Andre GideJournalPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Your book on Dostoevsky (for which many thanks) has made a very considerable impression upon me. And yet you say almost nothing about his technique, which interests me c...Arnold Bennett André GideDostoevskyPrint: Book
1900-1945 I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'. I see in the course of a year a large number of American translations, and I have not ye...Arnold Bennett André GideThe Vatican SwindlePrint: Book
1900-1945 I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'. I see in the course of a year a large number of American translations, and I have not ye...Arnold Bennett André GideThe School of WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945I wish I could write short novels like your completely admirable 'L’Ecole des Femmes'. But I can’t.Arnold Bennett André GideL'Ecole des FemmesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said anything but someone has filched my copy; and I wante...Joseph Conrad André GideL'ImmoralistePrint: Book
1900-1945'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said anything but someone has filched my copy; and I wante...Joseph Conrad André GidePrétextes (OR Nouveaux prétextes) Print: Book
1900-1945'I am proud to learn that there is one [a phrase in "Lord Jim"] worthy to serve as an epigraph to one of the books of "Les Caves du Vatican". What a beautiful start! What...Joseph Conrad André GideLes Caves du Vatican (Book 1)Print: see additional information
1900-1945'Many thanks indeed for your good letter and for the little book ["La Symphonie Pastorale"] whose precious pages I will cut tonight "in the silence of my study" in a peac...Joseph Conrad André GideLa Symphonie PastoralePrint: Book
1900-1945'A few days ago in fact I re-read "Les Caves du Vatican", with the same interest but with an admiration that grows on each new reading. The infinity of things you put int...Joseph Conrad André GideLes Caves du Vatican Print: Book
1900-1945'Forgive me for not thanking you sooner for the book ["Incidences"]. It's my gouty wrist I can barely hold a pen. But I don't need to tell you that I find your pages alwa...Joseph Conrad André GideIncidencesPrint: Book
1900-1945'L'Heroisme consiste a ne pas permettre au corps de renier les impudences de l'esprit 'runs an epigram of Maurois which bowled me at the first reading; then, as so oft...Edward Morgan Forster Andre MauroisByronPrint: Book
1900-1945I will strive to let you have a note about André Maurois’s 'Ariel ou la vie de Shelley'. It is a very bright thing.Arnold Bennett André MauroisAriel: ou la vie de ShelleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 24. III 37
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
3. Disraeli: Doro...		Celia Burrow André MauroisDisraeli: A Picture of the Victorian AgePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the ...		Rosamund Wallis André MauroisCall No Man HappyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the ...		Rosamund Wallis André MauroisCall No Man HappyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the ...		Howard Smith André MauroisThe Silence of Colonel BramblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the ...		Isabel Taylor André MauroisArielPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the ...		Francis E. Pollard André MauroisDisraeliPrint: Book


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