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Record Number: 27767


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I'll show you where I got the hint for it [his story "The Warriors' Soul"] in Philippe de Ségur. There's a hint for another in him but I fancy too macabre (and improper) to use.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

England or France

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:

Joseph Conrad

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

3 Dec 1857

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Master mariner

Religion:

originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist

Country of Origin:

Poland

Country of Experience:

England or France

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Philippe-Paule Ségur (Comte de)

Title:

Un Aide de Camp de Napoléon (de 1800 à 1812

Genre:

History, Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

first published 1895 Paris: Firmin-Didot and it was immediately translated into English. Another French edition appeared in 1910.

Provenance

unknown
see additional comments


Source Information:

Record ID:

27767

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

2002

Vol:

6

Page:

65

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Sidney Colvin dated 2 April 1917, Capel House.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919 (Cambridge, 2002), 6, p. 65, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27767, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

As it was in 1907 that Conrad was researching a book on Napoleon, the text he first read may have been the 1895 edition, in the public library in Montpellier. The context however suggests that he now owned a copy of the text. See also ID 21547

   
   
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