| Evidence: | 'I am reading Gide's memoirs, very disappointing I think, so far; I have found hardly anything that pleased me except the marble that had been dropped into the hole in the door. I read Jesting Pilate and liked it. I have tried Arabia Deserta for the fiftieth time, but can't manage it. Yet no doubt it is a more monumental work than Jesting Pilate.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 9 Mar 1892 and 23 Feb 1927 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Persia | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Teheran | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Vita Sackville-West |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 9 Mar 1892 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Religion: | Unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Persia |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Andre Gide |
| Title: | Memoirs |
| Genre: | Autobiog / Diary, Memoirs |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | 'Arabia Deserta' published 1926 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18065 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vita Sackville-West | |
| Editor: | Louise DeSalvo | |
| Title: | The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 196 | |
| Additional comments: | Quotation taken from a letter dated Wednesday 23 February 1927 written by Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Additional editor Mitchell A. Leaska. |
| Citation: | Vita Sackville-West, Louise DeSalvo (ed.), The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (Great Britain, 1984), p. 196, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18065, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| 'Jesting Pilate' was by George Rylands. 'Arabia Deserta' was by Aldous Huxley, an account of his tour around the world in 1926. This information is supplied in editorial footnotes. |
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