Record Number: 25751

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am [...] reading and dipping into and re-dipping into your blue volume ["The Holy Mountain"]. Fact is I've just banged it down this minute--and I shan't look at it now for some weeks.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 14 Sep 1909 and 30 Sep 1909

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Aldington, Nr Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Forehead

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:

Stephen Reynolds

Title:

The Holy Mountain

Genre:

Other religious, Fiction, Politics, political social and religious satire presented as fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Macmillan(?) 1909

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

25751

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

4

Page:

274

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Stephen Reynolds, undated, probably September 1909, Aldington.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 274, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=25751, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

See also record 24778