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

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Jack Jones

 

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Leo Tolstoy : [unknown]

'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, and raced through most of Dostoevsky in a month. He was guided by a librarian who, like a university tutor, demanded an intelligent critique of everything he read'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Jones      Print: Book

  

Fyodor Dostoevsky : [most works]

'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, and raced through most of Dostoevsky in a month. He was guided by a librarian who, like a university tutor, demanded an intelligent critique of everything he read'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Jones      Print: Book

  

Maxim Gorky : [unknown]

'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, and raced through most of Dostoevsky in a month. He was guided by a librarian who, like a university tutor, demanded an intelligent critique of everything he read'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Jones      Print: Book

 

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