'In the afternoon upon the Quarter-deck, the Doctor told Mr North and me an admirable story called "The Fruitlesse Precaution": an exceeding pretty story and worth my getting without book when I can get the book.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Anon Print: Book
'And so home, where I fell to read "The fruitlesse precaution" (a book formerly recommended by Dr Clerke at sea to me), which I read in bed till I had made an end of it and do find it the best-writ tale that ever I read in my life.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'but went home again by water, by the way reading of the other two stories that are in the book that I read last night, which I do not like so well as that.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
At the Paris Exhibition of 1878 I saw, and never forgot, a picture of the death of Manon Lescaut,
and asked my Father many questions. I read that amazing 'one book' of the Abbe Prevost, in
alternate slabs with Scarron's Roman Comique, when I was about 18.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
