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Record Number: 26620


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Of course it ["The Patrician"] isn't pure aesthetics (only Flaubert's "Salammbo" among novels is that) but even on that ground alone you have done a very fine thing.' Hence follow over a page of only slightly qualified praise for this work. 'I haven't told you half of what I thought about the book. While writing [the first time] I felt still a little "in the air" about it -- but after a second reading I felt so no longer.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 6 Mar 1911 and 10 Mar 1911

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: Capel House

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:

John Galsworthy

Title:

The Patrician

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Heinemann 1911

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

26620

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

4

Page:

424 and 429

Additional Comments:

Letters from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy dated 9 and 15 March 1911, Capel House.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 424 and 429, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=26620, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

These two closely related reading experiences have been recorded a a single serial expereince.

   
   
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