Record Number: 28588

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I will confess at once that I have read the book ["The Reconnaissance"] once only, and that of course is not enough;[...].The subject in itself is certainly a very difficult one because of its deep nature and its necessarily superficial aspects.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1916 and 27 Sep 1918

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

Orlestone nr. Ashford
Kent
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

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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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Theodore James Gordon Gardiner

Title:

The Reconnaissance

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Chapman & Hall, 1914

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28588

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

2002

Vol:

6

Page:

273-4

Additional Comments:

Letter from Joseph Conrad to Major Gordon Gardiner, dated 27 September 1918, Capel House

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919 (Cambridge, 2002), 6, p. 273-4, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28588, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

See p.xli for biographical information on author. Date range prsumes that Conrad only read this text after he met its author in 1916 in Edinburgh,(see fn.2,p.266 of source text. The place of reading is presumed to be Capel House but could also have been Edinburgh.