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Record Number: 20886


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'If you don't know already it may interest you to know that in Anatole France's last book ["Sur la pierre blanche"] there are two allusions to you.' Hence follow eleven lines of clarification and discussion.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 25 Apr 1905 and 20 Oct 1905

Country:

probably 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:

probably England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Anatole France

Title:

Sur la pierre blanche

Genre:

Fiction, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Paris: Calman-Lévy, 1905

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

20886

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1988

Vol:

n/a

Page:

288

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to H.G.Wells dated 2oth October 1905, Pent Farm

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 288, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20886, accessed: 19 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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