Record Number: 18656
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
Timen/a
Place:city: Stanford-le-Hope
county: Essex
specific address: Ivy Walls Farm
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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: Title:The Open Boat
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsJune 1897 Scribner's Magazine
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18656
Source: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=18656, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
See also letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett 5 December 1897 praising both these stories.
