| Evidence: | 'There is any amount of masterly pages. I have not read all of them as you may imagine. [...] Yes the "virtue" of the book is great.'
Interspersed and following are several lines of warm praise for Wells's new book. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 18 Sep 1903 and 2 Oct 1903 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Stanford near Hythe county: Kent specific address: Pent Farm |
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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: | H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells |
| Title: | Mankind in the Making |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Social Science, Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | London: Chapman and Hall, 1903 |
| Provenance: | owned sent with inscription 18th September 1903 as gift from author. |
| Record ID: | 20387 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | 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: | 61-62 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter to H.G.Wells dated 19th September, 1903, Pent Farm. See also additional comments about two subsequent letters. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 61-62, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20387, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| This was according to fn.2. p.61 of source text the first of three letters discussing this book in detail. The other two are dated 23-25 September 1903,(pp.62-64 of source text) which consists of a very detailed critique, and 2nd October 1903 (pp.65-66 of source text), in which Conrad comments on his reaction to a second reading. |
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