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

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Alexander Pushkin : 

'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin by a Russian revolutionary rag merchant who studied Dickens in the Whitechapel Public Library and read aloud from Man and Superman. Another friend - the son of a widowed mother, who left school at fourteen - exposed him to Egyptology, Greek architecture, Scott, Smollett, the British Musuem and Prescott's History of the Conquest of Peru'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Chaim Lewis      Print: Book

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin : Boris Godonof

'One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? from Hans Anderson to Boris Godonof.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten      Print: Book

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