Evidence: | 'I will confess at once that I have read the book ["The Reconnaissance"] once only, and that of course is not enough;[...].The subject in itself is certainly a very difficult one because of its deep nature and its necessarily superficial aspects.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1916 and 27 Sep 1918 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | Orlestone nr. Ashford Kent Capel House |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | Theodore James Gordon Gardiner |
Title: | The Reconnaissance |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Chapman & Hall, 1914 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28588 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 2002 | |
Vol: | 6 | |
Page: | 273-4 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Major Gordon Gardiner, dated 27 September 1918, Capel House |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Frederick R. Karl and Owen Knowles (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 6, 1917-1919 (Cambridge, 2002), 6, p. 273-4, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28588, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
See p.xli for biographical information on author. Date range prsumes that Conrad only read this text after he met its author in 1916 in Edinburgh,(see fn.2,p.266 of source text. The place of reading is presumed to be Capel House but could also have been Edinburgh. |
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