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Record 29856

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'The commanding officer, a timid, fragile man, gave me (as his way was) a pocket Testament bound in green suède, with coloured pictures. It went with me always, mainly unconsulted; it survives.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: May 1916
Country: France and Belgium
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Edmund Blunden
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1 Nov 1896
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Army Officer and Poet
Religion: Christian (Anglican)
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: France and Belgium
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: The New Testament
Genre: Bible
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 29856  
Source - Print  
  Author: Edmund Blunden
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Undertones of War
  Place of Publication: Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.)
  Date of Publication: 1982 (1928, 1937)
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 16
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War (Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.), 1982 (1928, 1937)), p. 16, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29856, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

Submitted as evidence of serial but occasional reading.

 

 

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