Evidence: | 'I've just finished reading "Lisa of Lambeth" It is certainly worth reading--but whether it's worth talking about is another question. I at any rate have nothing to say except this--that I do not like society novels--and Liza to me is just a society novel--society of a kind.[...]It will be fairly successful I believe--for it is a "genre" picture without any atmosphere and consequently no reader can live in it. He just looks on-- and that is what the general reader prefers.'
Conrad then compares the novel to George Du Maurier's illustrations. |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 2 Jun 1897 and 20 Jun 1897 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Stanford-le-Hope county: Essex |
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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, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | W.Someret Maugham |
Title: | Liza of Lambeth |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Unwin 1897 |
Provenance: | owned sent to Conrad by publisher presumably for comment |
Record ID: | 18599 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1983 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 361 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to T.Fisher Unwin 20 June 1897 Stanford-le Hope, Essex. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 1, 1861-1897 (Cambridge, 1983), 1, p. 361, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18599, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
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