'he saw me one day deep in "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" [sic].'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print: Book
'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Verne.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chester Armstrong Print: Book
'[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for anything remotely approaching the spiritual in art, literature or music...", and yet the whole family rea and, on some level, took pleasure in sharing and discussing their reading. His mother recited serials from the Family Reader and analyzed them at length with grandma over a cup of tea. Every few minutes his father would offer up a snippet from the Daily Chronicle or Lloyd's Weekly News. The children were not discouraged from reading aloud, perhaps from Jules Verne: "I can smell to this day the Journey to the Centre of the Earth", Burton recalled. The whole family made use of the public library and enjoyed together children's magazines like Chips and The Butterfly'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Burton Print: Book
'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond that level. He tried "The Idiot" and "The Brothers Karamazov", but found them too depressing, perhaps because his life was anything but Dostoevskian'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William John Brown Print: Book
'She[a distant Polish relative of Conrad]spoke of you, told me you were her cousin,
that you always loved reading Jules Verne's travels, etc., etc.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
'Today has been uneventful and we go into new
trenches at 9.30 tonight. It is one mass of mud
here now but will soon dry up with the sun. We
shall be six days in the new trenches,
and then probably straight back to billets ...
Monypenny showed us where we were going tonight
and what we should have to do there—then
nothing more till tonight—just drowse and
curse at the wet and the flies and read
"Michael Strogoff"—also listen to the
Germans shelling buildings on our right and
left and wondering for how long he is going to
leave us alone.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Oscar Hornung Print: Book
'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day
and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his pulpit and
construing for him every imaginable kind of book from “Ataxerxes” of Madame de Scudéry and
“Les Enfants de [sic] Capitaine Grant” by Jules Verne, to ode after ode of Tibullus, Fouqué’s
“Udine”
all of the “Inferno”, the greater part of “Lazarillo de Tormes” and “Don Quixote” in the
original[…]
In addition, Mr. Watson had this writer translate for him orally into French “The Two Admirals”,
“The Deerslayer”, and “The Last of the Mohicans”—which made this writer appreciate what a
magnificent prose writer Cooper was.’
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
'Lottie's kind of reading, though I could manage
it, was not mine; it was usually fiction conducive
of the domestic virtues. At the club, my father
discovered a number of volumes which to me were
very heaven. The author was Jules Verne. I was
quite convinced that he told the truth, and in The
Mysterious Island (with an organ on a submarine) I
lived in perfect joy and felicity. [...] He
eclipsed Marryat and Ballantyne and Kingston for
me; and Henty never fully caught my attention.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden Print: Book
