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: 20 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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