Record Number: 21519
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'And on the subject of Wells, his book on the United States is quite smart.He has understood a heap of fundamentally unintelligible things. That's the purpose of an imagination like his, aided by an intelligence as sharp as acid.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jul 1906 and 8 Nov 1906
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(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 Future in America: A search after realities
Genre:Social Science, Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Chapman Hall,1906 (see also additional comment)
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:21519
Source: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:373
Additional Comments:
Letter in French from Joseph Conrad to H.-D. Davray, dated 8 November, 1906, 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. 373, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=21519, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Book serialised in Harpers Weekly July-October 1906 (see fn.2 and letter to Jane Wells 4 August 1906, p.346 of source text.) Not entirely clear whether Conrad was referring to published book or serialised version in this letter.
