Record Number: 28456

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'They could all, I thought, have been summed up by the glum description of barbarism in the book called "Leviathan" by the seventeenth-century philosopher, Thomas Hobbes.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1900 and 30 Apr 1945

Country:

unknown

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Vera Brittain

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

29 Dec 1893

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

unknown

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Thomas Hobbes

Title:

Leviathan

Genre:

Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1651

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28456

Source:

Print

Author:

Vera Brittain

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Testament of Experience

Place of Publication:

Great Britain

Date of Publication:

1980

Vol:

n/a

Page:

358

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience, (Great Britain, 1980), p. 358, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28456, accessed: 06 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Vera Brittain goes on to quote from this book.