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

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Mark Twain (pseud.) : The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

'I have had a weekend's C.B. Unshaven on parade ... from six to ten on Saturday and Sunday nights I had to double 600 yards to the guardroom, to report, every half-hour, when "defaulters" blew. It meant I could not read for more than a few minutes at a time, and I had Tom Sawyer. I was the only man in the hut those two evenings, except for the old hut orderly, asleep on a form near the stove. How I would have loved to lie down and read or sleep in the quietness.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Hugh Kiernan      Print: Book

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