Record Number: 14549

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'... et lisais les Contes Drolatiqe de nostre feu Maistre de Balzac ...' [and I was reading the amusing stories of our master Balzac]

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

28 Mar 1872

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Edinburgh

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

13 Nov 1850

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

student

Religion:

Church of Scotland

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

letter to Charles Baxter

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Honore de Balzac

Title:

Contes Drolatiques

Genre:

Classics, Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

first published 1832-7

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

14549

Source:

Print

Author:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Editor:

Bradford Booth

Title:

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson

Place of Publication:

New Haven and London

Date of Publication:

1994

Vol:

1

Page:

219

Additional Comments:

Additional editor Ernest Mehew

Citation:

Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 219, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=14549, accessed: 23 March 2023

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Additional Comments:

Footnote p 219 Booth/Mehew says that here RLS was attempting to imitate Balzac's imitation of Rabelais in his Contes Drolatiques, and that he lapses at times into shaky modern French.