Evidence: | 'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew "Gil Blas" and "Don Quixote" in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening [in September 1889] before I began to write myself. I belive it was a novel, and it is quite possible that it was one of Anthony Trollope's novels.It is very likely.My acquaintance with him was then very recent. He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the first time in English. With men of European reputation, with Dickens and Walter Scott and Thackeray, it was otherwise. My first introduction to English imaginative literature was "Nicholas Nickleby". It was extraordinary how well Mrs. Nickleby could chatter disconnectedly in Polish [...] It was, I have no doubt an excellent translation. This must have been in the year 1870.'
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1870 and 31 Dec 1870 | ||||||||||
Country: | Poland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | Krakow | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Joseph Conrad |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 3 Dec 1857 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | child |
Religion: | Polish Catholic |
Country of origin: | Poland |
Country of experience: | Poland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charles Dickens |
Title: | Nicholas Nickleby |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1837-8 Polish translation 1847 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 27291 | |
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Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Mara Kalnins | |
Title: | A Personal Record | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1998 (1912) | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 73 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Mara Kalnins (ed.), A Personal Record (London, 1998 (1912)), p. 73, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27291, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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