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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'The other day I took up "Yvette". How well she [Ada Galsworthy] has done it all!' Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantYvette and Other StoriesPrint: 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 Guy De Maupassant  Print: 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 Guy de MaupassantUne ViePrint: 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 Guy de MaupassantCe Cochon de MorinPrint: 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 Guy de MaupassantLa Nuit Print: Serial / periodical
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 Guy de MaupassantunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Guy De MaupassantunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Two Survived", the most amazing book, which is most exciting.'Hilary Spalding Guy Pierce JonesTwo SurvivedPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Guy PocockThen They Pulled Down the BlindPrint: Book
'In 1970, on radio, Field Marshal Montgomery said that reading "When it was Dark" [1903] had been a turning point in his life.'Bernard Law Montgomery Guy ThorneWhen it was DarkPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you read de Maupassant?s '?tude sur Gustave Flaubert', preface to Bouvard et P?cuchet?from which I quote above? It is a most illuminating business, & one of the be...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantEtude sur Gustave FlaubertPrint: Book
1850-1899'I took up de Maupassant to inspire me into a new theme; got one in about 5 minutes, & in an hour had arrived at the details. But it is too new to work at tonight.' ...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories in mid-winter at Bowen's Court when she wrote to Vir...Elizabeth Bowen Guy de Maupassant'Yvette' [and other short stories]Print: 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 Guy de Maupassant[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have corrected all the proofs of The Old Wives Tale — 578pp. I am sure Tertia is wrong about those two chapters. I deliberately lowered the tension in the last ...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantUne Vie Print: Book
1850-1899'My humble apology for not thanking you before for the volume of verses. I share your opinion of Maupassant.The man is a great artist who sees the essential in everythi...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantDes VersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Mrs Gascoyne's [sic] book on Burmah, Kipling and Murray and wrote letters. Very steamy day. Read Mrs Cotes' "Delightful Americans" after dinner and thought it only ...Gertrude Bell Gwendolen Trench GascoigneAmong Pagodas and Fair LadiesPrint: Book
1900-1945 I have read 'Roasted Angels' and I now return it. It is a very unusual and even a very remarkable play. It is full of wit and fancy and most admirably written. I shou...Arnold Bennett H Hamer [anon]Roasted Angels
1900-1945'Worked rather intermittantly [sic] as was dying to read the end of "King's Solomon's Mines" [sic]. However, when this was done, I settled down OK.'Hilary Spalding H Rider HaggardKing Solomon's MinesPrint: Book
1900-1945'H. Williamson's "Norfolk Farm", for the detail making me feel I had lived those hard days myself.'H WilliamsonNorfolk FarmPrint: Book


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