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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'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Gustave FlaubertUn Coeur SimplePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pai...Leonard Woolf Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [italics] Bouvard et Pecuchet [end italics]. He looked at ...Antonia White Gustave FlaubertBouvard et PecuchetPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 September 1907: 'I read Madame Bovary again as I went up to Hatton in the train last week to look after cattle disease. As I read ...Leonard Woolf Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Gustave FlaubertCorrespondancePrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and ...George Gissing Gustave Flaubert[unknown]Print: 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
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 FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: 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 FlaubertSalammboPrint: Book
1850-1899'Symonds has gone off to Italy with your Bouvard et Pecuchet, a most loathsome work.'Robert Louis Stevenson Gustave FlaubertBouvard et PecuchetPrint: Book
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatol...Zoe Procter Gustave Flaubert[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is close to a miracle. I well remember that when I was wr...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is close to a miracle. I well remember that when I was wr...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertSalammbôPrint: Book
1850-1899'You say [in Walpole's critical study "Joseph Conrad"(1916)] that I have been under the formative influence of "Madame Bovary". In fact I have read it only after finishin...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cu...Joseph Conrad Gustave Flaubert Print: Book
1850-1899'The first words of Conrad's first book ["Almayer's Folly"] were pencilled on the fly-leaves and margins of "Madame Bovary".'Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité , "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pas...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertTrois ContesPrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pass...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertCorrespondencesPrint: Book
1850-1899'From that time for ten years Conrad followed the sea. The deep sea, reading all sorts of books. Once an officer with quarters of his own he resumed his reading of French...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertunknownPrint: Book


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