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Record 28752

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I didn't thank you for the book ["Papa's War and Other Satires" ] by letter because I knew I was coming to town at once. You know my opinion of all the pieces composing it.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1918 and 8 Feb 1919
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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: Edward Garnett
Title: Papa's War and Other Satires
Genre: Fiction, satire
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Allen and Unwin 1918
Provenance: owned
sent by author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28752  
Source - Print  
  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: 356
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett dated 8 February 1918, London

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. 356, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28752, accessed: 26 April 2024

Additional comments:

See also record ID 28581 and letter of 16 May 1918 p.218 of source text.

 

 

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