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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'Reported sick again as the swelling on my leg has not gone down. There is not a sound of a gun to be heard now ... We are now having a thunderstorm, the first rain for f...Stuart Chapman Guy BoothbyA Millionaire's Love StoryPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'Reading Beckford by [Guy] Chapman [1937] -- but why write about this cold egotist? this nugatory man...Virginia Woolf Guy ChapmanBeckfordPrint: Book
1900-1945The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",...Arnold Wesker Guy de Maupassant Print: Book
1900-1945'...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his conceptions had sunk into his subconscious. As he sai...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantBel-AmiPrint: Book
1900-1945'When he reread "Une Vie", in March 1908, he could find faults, but they were irrelevant to the work that had been done to him.'Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantUne ViePrint: Book
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1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Guy de Maupassant Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 30 May 1885: "I ought already to have thanked you for your friendly thought and delicate attention in sending me Maupassant's ineffable ...Henry James Guy de MaupassantBel-AmiPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Henrietta Reubell, 7 July 1890: "I have read Notre Coeur but haven't looked at Bourget in the Figaro."Henry James Guy de MaupassantNotre CoeurPrint: Unknown
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 Guy de Maupassant[tales: short stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'. . . I have just finished Guy de Maupassant?s Bel Ami. One of the most obviously truthful, British-matron-shocking, disgusting, attractive, overwhelmingly-powerful nov...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantBel-AmiPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday,13th February, Read ?Notre Coeur? (Guy de Maupassant)' Gerald Moore Guy de MaupassantNotre CoeurPrint: Book
1850-1899'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you ...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of "La Maison Tellier" is the licensed brothel and its inmates'. Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantLa Maison TellierPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -- in comparison [to last chapter of own work in prog...Virginia Woolf Guy de MaupassantUne ViePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf Guy de MaupassantunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me. I can do no serious reading. I have just begun to w...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantunknownPrint: Book, see additional comments
1850-1899'I fear I may be too much under the influence of Maupassant. I have studied "Pierre et Jean" - thought, method and all - with the profoundest despair. It seems nothing bu...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantPierre et JeanPrint: Book
1900-1945'I've lazed-- though I must say I did look through all the stories. It was the first look and I have done no actual underlining.'Joseph Conrad Guy de Maupassant[Stories] Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909: 'I never thanked you for the books [...] they are a godsend especially as I have jus...Leonard Woolf Guy de Maupassant'tale'Print: Book
1900-1945Referring to Elsie Hueffer's translation of Maupassant: 'I've "suggested" on the proof numbered 2 everything that occurred to me as improvement. Your work and your corre...Joseph Conrad Guy de Maupassant Stories from de Maupassant [English title] Manuscript: Proofs


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