Record Number: 21546
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Years ago I looked into "Typee" and "Omoo" but as I didn't find there what I am looking for when I open a book I did go no further. Lately I had in my hand "Moby Dick". It struck me as a rather strained rhapsody with whaling for a subject and not a single sincere line in the 3 vols of it.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:unknown, France or 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:unknown, France or England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Moby Dick or The Whale
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsFirst British publication London:Richard Bentley 1851, details of copy read by Conrad unknown, possibly 1900 or 1902 edn or very recent Everyman edn
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:21546
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:408
Additional Comments:
Letter from Joseph Conrad to Humphrey Milford [Oxford University Press] dated 15 January 1907, Riche Hotel, Montpellier.
Citation:
Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 408, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=21546, accessed: 24 September 2023
Additional Comments:
1.Conrad had been approached by O.U.P. to write a preface and later in the letter suggested that W.H.Hudson be asked instead. 2. Melville's "Typee" and "Omoo" have not been recorded as reading experiences since the evidence suggests that they were not actually read.
