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Record 27682

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'It ["The Freelands"] is a most beautifully done thing. [...]. I kept your book for a propitious day and finished it about midnight. Then I put out the light opened the window and listened to the noise of the Zep passing nearly overhead.[...] That was the night of the second raid on London.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 8 Sep 1915
Country: England
Time: evening
night
Place: city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: Capel House
location in dwelling: bedroom
   
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: John Galsworthy
Title: The Freelands
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book, Pamphlet
Publication details: 1915 Heinemann
Provenance: owned
probably gift from author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27682  
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: 506
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy, 19 August 1915, 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. 506, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27682, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

See fn.1, p.506 of source text for information supporting the precise timing of this reading experience

 

 

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