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Record 27676

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'These things [proofs of "The Little Man"] are much too exquisite and poignant to be really satire even if you prefer to call them by that name.' Hence follow twelve lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 12 Mar 1915 and 10 Apr 1915
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: John Galsworthy
Title: The Little Man and other satires
Genre: Fiction, Drama
Form of Text: Print: galley proofs
Publication details: subsequently published on 6 May 1915 by Heinemann
Provenance: n/a

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27676  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1996
  Vol: 5
  Page: 466
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to John Galsworthy 10 April 1915, Capel House.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Karl Frederick R. and Laurence Davies (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 5, 1912-1916 (Cambridge, 1996), 5, p. 466, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27676, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

See also ID 27675, letter to Galsworthy on 18 May 1915, p.477 of source text, acknowledging receipt of book.

 

 

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