Record Number: 20387

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'There is any amount of masterly pages. I have not read all of them as you may imagine. [...] Yes the "virtue" of the book is great.' Interspersed and following are several lines of warm praise for Wells's new book.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 18 Sep 1903 and 2 Oct 1903

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent Farm

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Joseph Conrad

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

3 Dec 1857

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Master mariner and author

Religion:

originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist

Country of Origin:

Poland

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells

Title:

Mankind in the Making

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Social Science, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Chapman and Hall, 1903

Provenance

owned
sent with inscription 18th September 1903 as gift from author.

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20387

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1988

Vol:

n/a

Page:

61-62

Additional Comments:

Letter to H.G.Wells dated 19th September, 1903, Pent Farm. See also additional comments about two subsequent letters.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 61-62, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20387, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

This was according to fn.2. p.61 of source text the first of three letters discussing this book in detail. The other two are dated 23-25 September 1903,(pp.62-64 of source text) which consists of a very detailed critique, and 2nd October 1903 (pp.65-66 of source text), in which Conrad comments on his reaction to a second reading.