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Record 27574

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'[...] the volume ["Charity"] which on my first visit to London in many months I carried off home. From the first word of the wonderful preface to the last short sketch of the Pampa as it was, it has been one huge delight. Of course some of these stries--gems--I've read (The incomparable "Aurora" is a long time ago first) but the cumulative effect is magnificent in its pictorial force and emotional power.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Apr 1912 and 14 Apr 1912
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: Capel House
   
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: R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
Title: Charity
Genre: Fiction, Essays / Criticism, Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Duckworth, 1912
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27574  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1996
  Vol: 5
  Page: 53-4
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham dated 14 April 1912, Capel House.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916 (Cambridge, 1996), 5, p. 53-4, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27574, accessed: 26 April 2024

Additional comments:

See record 18762 for Conrad's first reading experience of 'Aurora la Cujini: A Realistic Sketch in Seville' on 30 July 1898 .

 

 

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