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

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John Bunyan : Pilgrim's Progress

'[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss Family Robinson", and read aloud from "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe" and Charles Dickens'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

  

Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe

'[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss Family Robinson", and read aloud from "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe" and Charles Dickens'.

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

  

Charles Dickens : [unknown]

'[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss Family Robinson", and read aloud from "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe" and Charles Dickens'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Wilhelm Meister

The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice to Alfred Tennyson, 27 November 1833: 'I have read Wilhelm Meister for the first time, with which I find as many faults and beauties as every one does.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice      Print: Book

 

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