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Record Number: 19333


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Have you seen the last vol of Mrs Garnett's Turgeniev [sic]? There's a story there. "Three Portraits" really fine. Also "Enough" worth reading.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 15 Jan 1900 and 3 Mar 1900

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Ivan Turgenev

Title:

The Jew and Other Stories

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book, Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Stories originally published in Russian 1846-1868, Trans. by Constance Garnett (Heinemann 1899)

Provenance

owned
Inscribed copy from translator's husband Edward Garnett who also wrote the foreword


Source Information:

Record ID:

19333

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1986

Vol:

2

Page:

255

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B.Cunninghame Graham, 3rd March 1900, Pent Farm.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 255, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19333, accessed: 19 April 2024


Additional Comments:

See also letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett 15th January 1900, p.241 source text and fn.1 p.241-242.

   
   
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