| Evidence: | 'All I can say is that I am quite enthusiastic about the work ["A Modern Utopia"]. From the first line of the preface to the closing sentence I feel in touch with a more accessible Wells - a Wells mellowed, as it were in the meditation of the three books of which this last one is certainly the nearest to my understanding and the most commanding to my assent.'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 11 Apr 1905 and 25 Apr 1905 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Italy | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Capri county: Napoli specific address: probably Villa di Maria |
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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: | Italy |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells |
| Title: | A Modern Utopia |
| Genre: | Fiction, |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | London: Chapman and Hall,1905 |
| Provenance: | owned Inscribed copy from author, inscription dated 10 April 1905 |
| Record ID: | 20539 | |
| 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: | 234-235 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to H.G.Wells dated 25 April 1905, Capri. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 234-235, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20539, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| The text was the third of a sequence starting with 'Anticipations' 1901 and followed by 'Mankind in the Making' 1903 a text which disturbed Conrad (see fn.1, p.235 of source text and also letters of 19 September, 23-25 September and 2 October 1903, pp.61-65 of source text. See also RED ID 20387. |
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