| Evidence: | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond that level. He tried "The Idiot" and "The Brothers Karamazov", but found them too depressing, perhaps because his life was anything but Dostoevskian'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | William John Brown |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1894 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | Post Office Savings Bank clerk |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Title: | The Brothers Karamazov |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5675 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
| Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 406 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 406, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5675, accessed: 08 June 2023 | |
| See W.J. Brown, 'I Meet America' (London, 1942), pp. 51, 138. |
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