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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
 
1850-1899'I am charmed with "Joujou". It is altogether and delightfully shocking. Where the devil did you find it? Pardon the nautical language.' Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaJoujouPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Yesterday evening I escaped from the ship for the pilgrimage to the station. I have my parcel No.4000 and something. Just imagine a work of art called parcel No.4000, e...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLe Mariage du fils GrandsirePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading "Le fils Grandsire" with delight. It is charming and characteristic: it is alive. I shall finish the book tomorrow and speak of it in my next letter.'Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLe Mariage du fils GrandsirePrint: Book
1850-1899'I finished the book [Le Mariage du fils Grandsire] a while ago; then I went over several passages while waiting the chance to reread it entirely.' [here follows Conrad'...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLe Mariage du fils GrandsirePrint: Book
1850-1899''I reread "Yaga" only the other day. It gave me intense pleasure. I read slowly and mingled my dreams with these pages that I love so well.'Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaYaga: ésquisse de moeurs ruthènesPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, not clear whether this was being read in the book version or that published in the Revue des Deux Monde
1850-1899'It [a child relative?s speculations about the nature of fairies] was a good deal in the vein of Herbert Spencer?s description of the primitive man, all this.'Robert Louis Stevenson Herbert SpenserPrinciples of BiologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading "The Village on the Cliff", and cannot tell you how beautiful I think it. I am inclined to give up literature. [italics]I[end italics] can?t write like that...Robert Louis Stevenson Anne Isabella ThackerayThe Village on the Cliff. A Novel.Print: 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 have been working all the morning at my second ?John Knox? proof, and got it pretty right, I fancy.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonJohn Knox and the Controversy about Female RulePrint: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay.
1850-1899'I have also got ?An Autumn Effect? in proof: I shall send it to you to read, I think.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonAn Autumn Effect.Print: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay.
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 Anatole FranceLe Lys RougePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just reread "Le fils Grandsire", opening the book at random, and continuing at random, I have read every single word. with an odd and entirely sentimental fondnes...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLe Mariage du fils GrandsirePrint: Book
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
1850-1899'Now I only want to say that "An Imagined World " charmed my eyes with a charm of its own-distinc[t]ly.'Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettAn Imagined WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Scottish dailies have begun to review my "Folly" ["Almayer's Folly"]. brief, journalistic, but full of praise! Above all, the "Scotsman", the major Edinburgh paper, ...Joseph Conrad newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I in...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresion of the suggestive charm and full realism of that ...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) WellsThe Wonderful VisitPrint: Book
1850-1899'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresion of the suggestive charm and full realism of that ...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) WellsThe Time MachinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresion of the suggestive charm and full realism of that ...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) WellsThe Stolen Bacillus and Other IncidentsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am sorry to miss making the acquaintance of Mr Becke. Strangely enough I have been, only the other day, reading again his "Reef and Palm". Apart from the great interes...Joseph Conrad George Lewis (Louis) BeckeBy Reef and PalmPrint: Book


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