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Record 26624

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'"François" is quite good. Very genuine touches all along and quite telling bits here and there.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 28 May 1911 and 2 Jun 1911
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Orlestone nr. Ashford
county: Kent
specific address: Capel House
   
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: unknown
Title: n/a
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned
sent to Conrad by R.B Cunninghame Graham

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 26624  
Source - Print  
  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: 447
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to R.B. Cunninghame Graham, dated 2 June 1911, Capel House.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 4 1908-1911 (Cambridge, 1990), 4, p. 447, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26624, accessed: 20 April 2024

Additional comments:

See fn.2, p.447 of source text where this second book sent by Cunninghame Graham is speculatively identified as being either George Sand's "François le Champi" (1847) or Maupassant's "François"

 

 

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