Record Number: 32377

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

(1) 'Can you guess what I have been reading this week? Of all things in the world "Pendennis"! Isn't this the one you find too much for you? I am nearly through the first volume and like it well so far: of course one gets rather sick of Pen's everlasting misbehaviour and the inevitable repentance going round and round like a mill wheel and there doesn't seem much connection between one episode and another. All the same it has a sort of way with it.' (2) 'I am at present in the middle of a book called "Pendennis" which I should advise you to read unless I knew your prejudice against the author: however, one of these days you will come round and "see my point". (3) '... having finished "Pendennis" of which I am heartily sick by now...'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 4 Jul 1916 and 25 Jul 1916

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

Great Bookham
Surrey
'Gastons'

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Clive Staples Lewis

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

29 Nov 1898

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Student

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

Northern Ireland

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

William Makepeace Thackeray

Title:

The History of Pendennis, his Fortunes and Misfortunes, his Friends and his Greatest Enemy

Genre:

Fiction, Satirical semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

32377

Source:

Print

Author:

C. S. Lewis

Editor:

Walter Hooper

Title:

C. S. Lewis Collected Letters

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

2000

Vol:

1

Page:

210, 213, 220

Additional Comments:

(1) From a letter to Arthur Greeves, 11 July 1916 (2) From a letter to his father, 14? July 1916 (3) From a letter to Arthur Greeves, 25 July 1916

Citation:

C. S. Lewis, Walter Hooper (ed.), C. S. Lewis Collected Letters, (London, 2000), 1, p. 210, 213, 220, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32377, accessed: 26 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

None