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Record Number: 19344


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I add a few words above all to talk to you about the book. I've read the novel for the third time, faithfully--from one end to the other. It's very good. It's very good! The characters are defined with a precision which I envy in you. [...] I love the book.There is a very gentle charm and also power in the style.' Hence follows five more lines of praise.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1900 and 10 May 1900

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent 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:

Marguerite Poradowska

Title:

Pour Noemi

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1900

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

19344

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:

267

Additional Comments:

Translation of part of letter in French from Joseph Conrad to Marguerite Poradowska, 10th May 1900, Pent Farm.The letter was in effect a postscript to a letter in English from Jessie Conrad (see fn.4 p.266 in source text).

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 267, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19344, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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