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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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'It was a change to spend such a lazy day. We read the Apocrypha, I remember, and wandered a little, but not very far afield, not much further than the spring where...Vita Sackville-West unknown unknownBible - the ApocryphaPrint: 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'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'I say, has Rebecca West's book come your way? It is unreadable. It is a brew of Meredith, 'Orlando' and Amanda Ross.'Vita Sackville-West Rebecca WestHarriet HumePrint: Book
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'I am grateful to you for having told me to buy Yeats' poems, they kept me happy in the train all the way. I like the one about Leda, How can those terrified vague...Vita Sackville-West William Butler YeatsLeda and the SwanPrint: Unknown
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'Last night I went to bed very early and read Mrs Dalloway. It was a very curious sensation: I thought you were in the room - But there was only Pippin, trying to burrow...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfMrs DallowayPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for "Mrs Dalloway", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-charming-of-you-to-send-me-your-book-I-am-looking-forw...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfMrs DallowayPrint: Book
1900-1945'It seems to me the loveliest, wisest, richest book that I have ever read, - excelling even your own Lighthouse.'Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfOrlandoManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'I came in just now, having been to Wertheim's to buy a pair of gloves for 4 marks, and meant to go on with my story of the bank clerk who loses his memory, but having st...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfOrlandoPrint: Book
1900-1945'My own darling, I write to you in the middle of reading "Orlando", in such a turmoil of excitement and confusion that I scarcely know where (or who!) I am. It came this...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfOrlandoPrint: Book
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'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'But I did read one that I liked: Sergeant Grisha.'Vita Sackville-West Arnold ZweigThe Case of Sergeant GrishaPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I have been horribly remiss in writing to thank you for "Mrs Dalloway", but as I didn't want to write you the 'How-charming-of-you-to-send-me-your-book-I-am-looking-forw...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfThe Common ReaderPrint: Book
1900-1945'then the old problem: what shall I read at dinner, propped open by a fork? decide finally on Virginia, grab the common reader, a pair of spectacles, a pencil, go in to d...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfThe Common ReaderPrint: Book
1900-1945'Darling, do you know what I did last night after writing to you? I meant to finish my lecture, but fell to reading the Georgics (mine, not Virgil's), and really I thoug...Vita Sackville-West Vita Sackville-WestThe LandUnknown
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



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