| Evidence: | 'I have been a few times to the Town [Montpellier] Library- with an object. And the object is reading up all I can discover there about Napoleon in Elba.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 8 Jan 1907 and 25 Jan 1907 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Montpellier county: Herault specific address: Public Library |
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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: | France |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Paul Gruyer |
| Title: | Napoleon, roi de l'ile d'Elbe |
| Genre: | History, Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Paris: Hachette,1906 (see also additional comment) |
| Provenance: | read in situ |
| Record ID: | 21547 | |
| 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: | 409 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to J.B.Pinker dated 25 January 1907, Montpellier. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 409, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21547, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| See fn.3 p.409 of source text, which indicates that in 1907 the Montpellier public library held only the volume cited above , with no other material on Napoleon on Elba, so it is reasonable to assume that this constituted Conrad's reading experience. |
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