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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Read "Esther Waters" which I though excellent — so direct and simple — and "La Seconde Vie de Michel Teissier" which interested me. Prosperous journey &mdash...Gertrude Bell Edouard RodLa Seconde Vie de Michel TeissierPrint: Book
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
1850-1899'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'George Eliot [pseud] Michelangelo Buonarotti the YoungerLa TanciaPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to p...Wilfred Owen Gustave FlaubertLa Tentation de saint AntoinePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 July 1892: "Have you read any of ... [Paul Bourget's] novels? If you haven't, don't ... Make an exception, however, for Terre Prom...Henry James Paul BourgetLa Terre promiseManuscript: Sheet, proofs
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 23.6.36
    Francis E Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and, with the addition of No. 7, ap...		Victor Alexander René BazinLa Terre qui meurtPrint: Book
1850-1899'I'm going to return you "La Terre qui Meurt" which is most excellent.'Gertrude Bell René BazinLa Terre qui MeurtPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'I read "La Torpille" -- but I cannot give you any information, such as you ask for [...] As to Casimir ...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLa TorpillePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire'Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]La Tragedie de SemiramisPrint: Book
1900-1945[Whether this contains evidence of any particular reading experience is unclear] 'Presumably these writers had never read the French critic Julien Benda, who nine year...Vera Brittain Julien BendaLa Trahison des ClercsPrint: Book
1900-1945Some marginal annotation in pencil in English and French throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Georges DumasLa tristesse et la joiePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 27th. Birthday 23. [...] Because it is my Birthday I amuse myself [...] lest the day should appear to [sic] odious to me so I read Goldoni. La Vedova Sc...Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniLa Vedova ScaltraPrint: Book
1850-1899'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his p...Ford Madox Ford [Anon] [Anon]La Vida de Lazarillo de TormesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon. Finish the Life of Theseus.'Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Vida es SuenoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] a...Claire Clairmont Pedro Calderon de la BarcaLa Vida es SuenoPrint: Book
1700-1799'There is, in the British Museum, a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr Birch, on the subject of biography; which, though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artful...Dr Warburton Pierre DesmaiseauxLa vie de Boileau-DespréauxPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading on board the life of Pasteur, provided by Sylvia. It would interest you both, especially you, for now that I come to think of it wriggling germs are ...Gertrude Bell René Vallery-RadotLa Vie de PasteurPrint: Book
1850-1899'. I first heard of Barr?s in an article be Edward Delille in the Fortnightly. Next I read a criticism of this very book in the latest volume issued of Anatole France?s...Arnold Bennett Anatole FranceLa Vie LitterairePrint: Book
1900-1945'He enjoyed stories that were really funny but had no time for anything that was indecent though he was not a prude and often bought "La vie parisienne" and, for light re...Joseph Conrad La Vie ParisiennePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Not having frequented a club before I was at first enchanted by the number and variety of the newspapers and magazines, but soon found them spiritually a diet of hors d'...Ronald Storrs La Vie ParisiennePrint: Serial / periodical


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