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Record 20277

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'The book ("Maison du Peché") has arrived and is now half read. Without going further my verdict is that it is good , but is not "fort".' Thence follows five lines of moderately negative criticism.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 9 May 1903 and 21 May 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

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, workmates)
 n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Marcelle Tinayre
Title: La Maison du Peché
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1900
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20277  
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: 35
  Additional comments: Letter to R.B.Cunninghame Graham dated 21st May 1903, Pent Farm.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 35, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20277, accessed: 23 April 2024

Additional comments:

Marcelle Tinayre, (1870-1948), was a prolific French author (over 30 novels).

 

 

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