Record Number: 20539

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'All I can say is that I am quite enthusiastic about the work ["A Modern Utopia"]. From the first line of the preface to the closing sentence I feel in touch with a more accessible Wells - a Wells mellowed, as it were in the meditation of the three books of which this last one is certainly the nearest to my understanding and the most commanding to my assent.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 11 Apr 1905 and 25 Apr 1905

Country:

Italy

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Capri
county: Napoli
specific address: probably Villa di Maria

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:

Italy

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:

A Modern Utopia

Genre:

Fiction,

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Chapman and Hall,1905

Provenance

owned
Inscribed copy from author, inscription dated 10 April 1905

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20539

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:

234-235

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to H.G.Wells dated 25 April 1905, Capri.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 234-235, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20539, accessed: 26 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

The text was the third of a sequence starting with 'Anticipations' 1901 and followed by 'Mankind in the Making' 1903 a text which disturbed Conrad (see fn.1, p.235 of source text and also letters of 19 September, 23-25 September and 2 October 1903, pp.61-65 of source text. See also RED ID 20387.