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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I lay in an immense bed, with firelight flickering on the ceiling, and read a book by a theosophist.'Vita Sackville-West unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Now I have had my dinner, or rather Pippin has had most of my dinner, and it is dark and the house is silent, and the book of Elizabethan lyrics which I have been trying...Vita Sackville-West unknown[Elizabethan lyrics]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read so much of the 19th century lately that I can scarcely restrain myself from writing in that manner - whether in prose or poetry - and the more I read, the mo...Vita Sackville-West unknown[nineteenth-century works]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Of course I was much in love with you then, in a very young and (also) uninformed way; it was young and fresh like Greek poetry, (I have just been reading some translati...Vita Sackville-West unknown[selections from a Greek Anthology]Print: Book
1900-1945'Oh - a propos of that, I've been absolutely engaged by a book about Knole, in which Eddy is described as "author and musician" and I am described as "the wife of the Hon...Vita Sackville-West unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading Gide's memoirs, very disappointing I think, so far; I have found hardly anything that pleased me except the marble that had been dropped into the hole in th...Vita Sackville-West Andre GideMemoirsUnknown
1900-1945'But I did read one that I liked: Sergeant Grisha.'Vita Sackville-West Arnold ZweigThe Case of Sergeant GrishaPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I lie in bed, and watch the fire on the ceiling, and hear the clock strike, and think how delicious it will be when you come to stay here - I read Haydon, and an excelle...Vita Sackville-West Benjamin Robert HaydonAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the way, Harold and I both like Clifford Kitchin's murder book, and I shall recommend it on Thursday, so tell Leonard to notice if it affects sales.'Vita Sackville-West Clifford KitchinDeath of my AuntPrint: Book
1900-1945'As I read the "New Yorker" article (getting more and more indignant) I thought, "This man, although he is saying some exceedingly foolish things, is a man of intelligenc...Vita Sackville-West Edmund WilsonThrough the Embassy Window; Harold NicolsonPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Tell Leonard to read Harold's new book. It is more in his line than yours, being political, but I think you would be amused by some passages in his diary, which is the ...Vita Sackville-West Harold NicolsonPeacemakingUnknown
1900-1945'I am reading a delicious book called The Wandering Scholars - I wish I knew Latin.'Vita Sackville-West Helen WaddellThe Wandering ScholarsPrint: Book
1900-1945' I've read a lot, Boswell, de Quincy, Tom Jones, Plutarch. One sits in the sun until the heat of it drives one indoors again.'Vita Sackville-West Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I tried to read Read on poetry - Words words words, - and all polysyllabic. That isn't poetry; not even the explanation of it.'Vita Sackville-West Herbert ReadunknownUnknown
1900-1945'I shall never speak to Squire again. I never read anything like it for sheer idiocy.'Vita Sackville-West J.C. SquireThe ObserverPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945' - I read Boswell's tour in the Hebrides and speculate agreeably on the probable difference between Boswell's conception of the Hebrides and yours - 'Vita Sackville-West James BoswellJournal of a Tour to the HebridesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read "Comment debuta Marcel Proust"? I cried over it. (By the way, that might be quite a good book to publish in translation; it's quite short.)' Vita Sackville-West Louis de RobertComment debuta Marcel ProustPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the time I read Proust. As no one on board has ever heard of Proust, but has enough French to translate the title, I am looked at rather askance for the num...Vita Sackville-West Marcel ProustSodom et GonorrhePrint: Book
1900-1945'The parties of Proust gain in fantasy from being read in such circumstances, (I don't mean in the bath, but on deck;) they recede, achieve a perspective; they become his...Vita Sackville-West Marcel ProustunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I meant to have written such a lot, but somehow I haven't; there's always a whale or a murder to look at, (a tortoise or a theorbo!) so I have written a few letters, - p...Vita Sackville-West Marcel ProustunknownPrint: Book


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