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Record Number: 18655


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a long yarn about it but I admire it without reserve. It is an amazing bit of biography. [...] The boat thing ["The Open Boat"] is immensely interesting.I don't use the word in its common sense.' [Hence follows several more lines of general praise].

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 16 Nov 1897 and 1 Dec 1897

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Stanford-le-Hope
county: Essex
specific address: Ivy Walls Farm

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Stephen Crane

Title:

A Man and Some Others

Genre:

Fiction, Biography, Conrad implies biography but examination of the text shows it to be a short story

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

1897 Century

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18655

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1898-1902

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1983

Vol:

1

Page:

415

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Stephen Crane Stanford-le-Hope 1 December 1897

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 415, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18655, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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