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Harold Nicolson
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Virginia Woolf : Orlando
'He [a friend] took me to a bar which he said was quite respectable, but the proprietor showed me pornographic photographs, which are things I absolutely loathe and abhor. So I went away in a dudgeon and read a chapter of Orlando to cleanse my mind. That book is the cleanest thing I know, - like very clear and deep crystal.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson
unknown : [work about Harmann, the Butcher of Hanover]
'Do you now what we are doing? Harold is reading about Harmann, The Butcher of Hanover, - an unbelievably horrible book which I recommend by the way to the Hogarth Press, in translation, - and I am writing to you, and over both of us hangs the immediate prospect of putting on our pretty evening clothes and sallying out to a party.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson Print: Unknown
Vita Sackville-West : Heritage
'I read Celery through from cover to cover last night in bed. It really is good.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson Print: Book
Bertrand Russell : On Education
'I had a nice day yesterday lying out under the trees in a deck-chair reading Bertie Russell's "On Education". A good firm book.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : unknown
'I went yesterday to Montreux and then changed and went in a funny funicular to a place called Gstaadt where we arrived at 7.30. I read Byron all the time.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson Print: Book
Vita Sackville-West : Passenger to Teheran
'(I read it through at a sitting - but that of course is not a good test...)
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson Print: Book
Vita Sackville-West : The Land
'Dearest - you don't know what "The Land" means to me! I read it incessantly - it has become a real wide undertone to my life.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson
: Express
'Feeling rather miz at the moment as I have been reading three days worth of the "Express" and "Evening Standard". They really fill me with alarm. I simply shall be unable to write the sort of sob-stuff they want.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson Print: Newspaper
: [French and German newspapers]
'Read French and German newspapers. Wrote three paragraphs. Fiddled about.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson Print: Newspaper
Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
'I read "Mansfield Park" [Jane Austen]. Proust applied to la petite noblesse de campagne. I also read Aristotle's Ethics, feeling that it was really high time, before I got to Rome, to know what was meant by "good".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson Print: Book
Emily Dickinson : poems
'In odd moments when I am at a loose end (about eleven minutes in the day) I read Emily Dickinson.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson Print: Book
Charles Lamb : unknown
'I think she thought I was French as I was reading the "Matin". But when I picked up Lamb which was obviously an English book, she began throwing out leading questions.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson Print: Book
Vita Sackville-West : Solitude
'I had time yesterday to read your poem. In fact I read it three times. Once in the train. Once after luncheon in the library. And once before I went to bed.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson
John Keats : Letters
'I read the Keats letters coming up in a belated and dawdling train. His letter to [Charles Armitage] Brown from Naples is one of the most terrifying things that I have ever read.'
