| Evidence: | Years ago I looked into "Typee" and "Omoo" but as I didn't find there what I am looking for when I open a book I did go no further. Lately I had in my hand "Moby Dick". It struck me as a rather strained rhapsody with whaling for a subject and not a single sincere line in the 3 vols of it.'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown, France or 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: | unknown, France or England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Herman Melville |
| Title: | Moby Dick or The Whale |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First British publication London:Richard Bentley 1851, details of copy read by Conrad unknown, possibly 1900 or 1902 edn or very recent Everyman edn |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 21546 | |
| 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: | 408 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Humphrey Milford [Oxford University Press] dated 15 January 1907, Riche Hotel, Montpellier. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 408, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21546, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| 1.Conrad had been approached by O.U.P. to write a preface and later in the letter suggested that W.H.Hudson be asked instead. 2. Melville's "Typee" and "Omoo" have not been recorded as reading experiences since the evidence suggests that they were not actually read. |
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