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Record 21514

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'The book ["The Man of Property"] is in parts marvellously done and in its whole a piece of art-undubitably [sic] a piece of art. I've read it 3 times. My respect for you increased with every reading.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 11 Jan 1906 and 31 Jan 1906
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Stanford near Hythe
county: Kent
specific address: Pent Farm
   
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 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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Galsworthy
Title: The Man of Property
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Manuscript: presumably copy of MS sent for publication, or the page proofs, since book was publsihed on 23 March 1906
Publication details: London: Heinemann, 1906
Provenance: n/a

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 21514  
Source - Print  
  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: 314
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy dated 31 January 1906, letterhead: 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. 314, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21514, accessed: 28 March 2024

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