| Evidence: | 'And on the subject of Wells, his book on the United States is quite smart.He has understood a heap of fundamentally unintelligible things. That's the purpose of an imagination like his, aided by an intelligence as sharp as acid.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jul 1906 and 8 Nov 1906 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| 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 |
| Author: | H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells |
| Title: | The Future in America: A search after realities |
| Genre: | Social Science, Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | London: Chapman Hall,1906 (see also additional comment) |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 21519 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 373 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter in French from Joseph Conrad to H.-D. Davray, dated 8 November, 1906, 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. 373, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21519, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Book serialised in Harpers Weekly July-October 1906 (see fn.2 and letter to Jane Wells 4 August 1906, p.346 of source text.) Not entirely clear whether Conrad was referring to published book or serialised version in this letter. |
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