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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'Your first inst[alment] [of "Kipps"] in the PMM [Pall Mall Magazine] is jolly good. It turns up [sic] remarkably well. Coming upon it unexpectedly (the No.of PMM was sen...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells Kipps: The Story of a Simple SoulPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Read ... Knave of Diamonds by Ella [ ].'William Thomas Ethel DellKnave of DiamondsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Infinite thanks for the most precious and admirable volume [Knave of Hearts] [...] meanwhile I am as ever yours with admiration of the poet and affection for the man...'Joseph Conrad Arthur SymonsKnave of HeartsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I did "The Knightes Tale" all my prep. time and like it'.Hilary Spalding Geoffrey ChaucerKnight's Tale, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful."Hilary Spalding Geoffrey ChaucerKnight's Tale, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. Stansfield : Chaucer's Poetry described by C. I. Evan...Violet Wallis Geoffrey ChaucerKnight's Tale, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 9 October 1927: 'I am reading Knole and The Sackvilles. Dear me; you know a lot: you have a rich dusky attic of a mind.' ...Virginia Woolf V. Sackville-WestKnole and the SackvillesPrint: Book
1900-1945'He read — Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...'John Buchan A. E. W. MasonKonigsmarchPrint: Book
1850-1899'Polishness which I took from Mickiewicz and Slowacki. My father read "Pan Tadeusz" aloud to me and made me read it aloud. Not just once or twice. I used to prefer "K...Joseph Conrad Adam MickiewiczKonrad WallenrodPrint: Book
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one... KoranPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read somewhere in the Koran, "The fate of every man have we bound about his neck".'Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]KoranPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ahmed and I talked together and read the Quran, when he would put on his tarbush, put out his cigarette, and be careful that the Book should not be touched except ...Doreen Ingrams [n/a] [n/a]KoranPrint: Book, Read in Arabic
1900-1945'As we sat waiting for dinner and discussing religion, our first hostile impressions were gradually smoothed away. I recited the opening chapter of the Quran and pr...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]KoranUnknown
1900-1945'When we had looked over the crumbling edge, the population took us to their mosque, in whose ruin a wooden minbar with date carved upon it gave the presumable age ...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]KoranUnknown
1900-1945'In the evening I would take one or the other of my companions [...] to the harims I knew, to meet again the sayyid's lovely wife, and the singers from Ghurfa, and ...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]KoranManuscript: Sheet, Parchment
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "Kritik der reinen Vernunft," a book which always le...George Grote Immanuel KantKritik der reinen VernunftPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for sending me the comedy. I found it [...] interesting and greatly entertaining, which however did not prevent me from taking your work quite seriously.'Joseph Conrad Bruno WinawerKsiega Hioba (The Book of Job)Print: playscript
1850-1899'... some verses which I wrote turn out, on inspection, to be not quite equal to "Kubla Khan".'Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel Taylor ColeridgeKubla KhanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue. 17th Sept. 1942 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. A card of greetings was read from Janet Rawlings, Beth and Victor Alexander.<...		Margaret Dilks Samuel Taylor ColeridgeKubla KhanUnknown
1850-1899'I have not finished re-reading your book, so I cannot say whether all is improved; but much is.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Grant RobertsonKurum, Kabul and Kandahar: being a Brief Record of...Print: Book


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