| Evidence: | 'I am keeping the "Jeanne d'Arc" until you return to town, unless you want me to send it out west to you. Upon the whole I think it is disappointing. One asks oneself why on earth A[natole]F[rance] wanted to touch that subject at all, and if he had to touch why in that way precisely.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1908 and 18 Aug 1908 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Luton Hoo Estate county: Bedfordshire specific address: Someries |
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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: | Anatole France |
| Title: | Vie de Jeanne d'Arc |
| Genre: | History, Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1908. See also additional comments |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) Internal evidence indicates book lent by John or Ada Galsworthy |
| Record ID: | 24870 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
| Vol: | 4 | |
| Page: | 104 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Ada Galsworthy dated 18 August 1908, Someries. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 104, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24870, accessed: 26 April 2024 | |
| See also letter to John Galsworthy 30 November 1908, pp.151-152 of source text, indicating the eventual return of the book and again, Conrad's disappointment. Conrad would of course be referring to the original French edition, as the English edition translated by Winifred Stephens did not appear until 1909. |
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