Evidence: | [Given 'a handsome and well-illustrated volume called the Prize Bible' by his grandmother] '...the surprise they got when I actually read the thing, right through, cover to cover, as if it was "Chips" or "Herewald the Wake"... Here on a wet Sunday morning was this handsome volume, leather-bound, of clear bold type and frequent illustrations -I'd look at the pictures. They were gawdy and full of action, quite a lot of them. Look at the priests of Dagon with their blood-splashed knives; Jael creeping into the tent of Sisera; Egyptian chariots overwhelmed by the Red Sea; Judas gloating over his pieces of silver like a carroty-headed Quilp...You simply had to read of these matters; and if the narrative didn't always come up to the quality of the illustrations, when it did you had a story which stayed in your imangination and gave it something to glow with. I read on, session after session, past all the boring bits and finished it at last.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning: wet Sunday morning | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Newcastle location in dwelling: home |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Jack Common |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1903 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | son of locomotive fireman |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | Bible |
Genre: | Bible |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 'Prize Bible' illustrated edition, leather-bound |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 11483 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jack Common | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Kiddar's Luck | |
Place of Publication: | Newcastle | |
Date of Publication: | 1975 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 44-45 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jack Common, Kiddar's Luck (Newcastle, 1975), p. 44-45, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11483, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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