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Record 12461

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
[List of books read in 1926] '"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" (Holmes), "Plain Tales from the Hills" (Kipling), "History of Florence" (Machiavelli), "Essays in Socialism" (Belfort Bax), "Socialism: Critical and Constructive" (J.R. Macdonald), "Trimblerigg" (L. Houseman), "Peer Gynt" (Ibsen), "A Chair on the Boulevard" (L. Merrick), "Brand" (Ibsen), "The Long Roll" (M. Johnston), "Compleat Angler" (I. Walton), "Omoo" (H. Melville), "Shorter Poems" (M. Prior), "Notre Coeur" (G. de Maupassant), "Barry Lindon" (Thackeray), "Path to Rome" (Belloc), "The Americans" (Henry James), "Four Georges" (Thackeray), "Memoirs of the Crusades" (Villehardouin & de Joinville), "Journal to Stella" (Swift), "Hamlet" (Temple Shakespeare), "The Eye Witness" (Belloc), "Almayer's Folly" (Conrad), "Tartarin sur les Alpes" (Daudet), "The Tragedy of Education" (Edmond Holmes), "La Peur de Chagrin" etc (Balzac), "Life of Nelson" (Southey), "Les Fr?quentations de Maurice" (Sidney Place), "Journal of the Plague Year" (Defoe), "Figures in Modern Literature" (J.B. Priestley), "English Humourists" (Thackeray), "Frank Mildmay" (Marryat), "Polar Exploration" (Buck), "Cricket and Cricketers" (Philip [illegible]), "The Sowers" ([illegible]), "Our Mr Wrenn" (Sinclair Lewis), "Martin Arrowsmith" (ditto), "Short History of the World" (H.G. Wells), "Jack Hamlin's Mediation" etc (Bret Harte), "At the Sign of the Blue Boar" (Wyndham Lewis), "Orphan Island" (Rose Macaulay), "The Spanish Farm" (R.H. Mottram), "Mr Prohack" (Arnold Bennett), "Told by an Idiot" (Rose Macaulay), "Mr Waddington of Wyck" (May Sinclair), "English Comic Characters" (J.B. Priestley), "Henry IV" (Temple Shakespeare), "Lolly Willowes" ( ? ) [Sylvia Townsend Warner]'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1926 and 1 Jan 1927
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Liverpool
   
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Gerald Moore
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 16 Jun 1903
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Coffee then Cocoa broker, working for Unilever - United Africa Company
Religion: none
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Title: Plain Tales from the Hills
Genre: Fiction, History, Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 12461  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: Gerald Moore
  Title: MS Diary 1926
  Location: Private Collection
  Call no: MS Diary 1926
  Page/folio: n/a

Citation: Gerald Moore, MS Diary 1926 Private Collection, p. MS Diary 1926, p. n/a, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12461, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

This material Copyright Andrew Neill Vanson Moore, and Shirley Frances Gould-Smith.

 

 

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