the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Breton : Voyage dans les Pays Bas

?To comfort ourselves we had a most entertaining Voyage dans les Pays Bas, par M Breton, to read and the charming story of Mademoiselle de Clermont on Madame de Genlis?s Petits Romans. I never read a more pathetic and finely written tale.?

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth      Print: Book

Andre Breton : Nadja

'I am surprised to find that though suspicious of surrealist dogma I like some of their work, notably and unexpectedly [Andre] Bretons's [italics] Nadja [end italics]. Attracted back to my old adolescent love [of] the magical.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

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