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Record 28772

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Many thanks for the inscribed copy. [...]. On the 28th May I finished correcting the last pages of "Rescue" [...]. The same evening I picked up "Sri Ram" as I limped to bed, and went on reading it through the still, very still, hours of night to the end, marvelling and musing over the pages.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 28 May 1919
Country: England
Time: evening
night: continous reading all night
Place: city: Wye
county: Kent
specific address: Spring Grove
location in dwelling: Study/library followed by bedroom
   
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: Edmund Candler
Title: Siri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Constable 1914
Provenance: owned
sent by author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28772  
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: 435
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edmund Candler dated 14 June 1919, Spring Grove.

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. 435, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28772, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

see also letter 12 November 1918 p. 303 of source text concerning Conrad's first reading of this novel.

 

 

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