the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche : 

'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage of the public library and early Penguins, he ranged all over the intellectual landscape: Freudian psychology, industrial administration, English literature, political history, Blake, Goethe, Mill,Nietzsche, The Webbs, Bertrand Russell's Essays in Scepticism, and Spengler's "The Decline of the West".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Argent      Print: Book

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche : [unknown]

‘You ask me, with a suggestion of triumph, what I … think of Nietzsche now? I have only now begun to read the man …’

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Hamilton Sorley      Print: Book

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