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Record 25751

Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am [...] reading and dipping into and re-dipping into your blue volume ["The Holy Mountain"]. Fact is I've just banged it down this minute--and I shan't look at it now for some weeks.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 14 Sep 1909 and 30 Sep 1909

Country:

England

Time:

n/a

Place:

city: Aldington, Nr Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Forehead

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:	Stephen Reynolds
Title:	The Holy Mountain
Genre:	Other religious, Fiction, Politics, political social and religious satire presented as fiction
Form of Text:	Print: Book
Publication details:	Macmillan(?) 1909
Provenance:	owned

Source Information:

Record ID:	25751
Source -	Print
	Author:	Joseph Conrad
	Editor:	Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies
	Title:	The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911
	Place of Publication:	Cambridge
	Date of Publication:	1990
	Vol:	4
	Page:	274
	Additional comments:	Letter from Joseph Conrad to Stephen Reynolds, undated, probably September 1909, Aldington.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 274, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25751, accessed: 25 April 2024

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