Record Number: 34281
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'But if you wanted to please me you could do what you could to log roll Ren� B�haine who, in the eyes of L�on Daudet and myself and other worthy people , passes for the greatest living novelist in the world�who also has been writing one masterpiece for upwards of twenty years and who, heaven help us, is quite as unpopular as either you or I.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1908 and 8 Oct 1933
Country:France
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:17 Dec 1873
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Catholic
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:France
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Histoire d'une Soci�te
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsAt this time 9 of total of 16 titles in the series (1908-1933) had appeared, from Charpentier 1908, others from Grasset
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:34281
Source:Ford Madox Ford
Editor:Richard M. Ludwig
Title:Letters of Ford Madox Ford
Place of Publication:Princeton, NJ
Date of Publication:1965
Vol:n/a
Page:225
Additional Comments:
Ford to Ezra Pound, 8 October 1933
Citation:
Ford Madox Ford, Richard M. Ludwig (ed.), Letters of Ford Madox Ford, (Princeton, NJ, 1965), p. 225, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34281, accessed: 03 February 2026
Additional Comments:
Ford later, in 1938, wrote a preface to Edward Crankshaw's translation of the second title in the series "Les survivants"/"The Survivors" (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
