| Evidence: | 'If you don't know already it may interest you to know that in Anatole France's last book ["Sur la pierre blanche"] there are two allusions to you.'
Hence follow eleven lines of clarification and discussion. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 25 Apr 1905 and 20 Oct 1905 | ||||||||||
| Country: | probably England | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | probably England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Anatole France |
| Title: | Sur la pierre blanche |
| Genre: | Fiction, Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Paris: Calman-Lévy, 1905 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 20886 | |
| 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: | 288 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to H.G.Wells dated 2oth October 1905, Pent Farm |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 3, 1903-1907 (Cambridge, 1988), p. 288, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20886, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
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