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Record 19402

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then go on with "Deerslayer" and end with the "Prairie". I read them at your age in that order;[..] Thirty four years ago is a long long time to look back upon.' Hence follows further comments about the language and content.
Century: 1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1867 and 31 Dec 1868
Country: Poland or Ukraine
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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 Child (0-17)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 3 Dec 1857
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Child
Religion: Polish Catholic
Country of origin: Poland
Country of experience: Poland or Ukraine
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Genre: Fiction, Children's Lit
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1826
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19402  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies)
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1986
  Vol: 2
  Page: 467
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to David Garnett (b.1892) son of Edward and Constance Garnett, dated 22 December, 1902, Pent Farm.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 467, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19402, accessed: 29 March 2024

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