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Record 28807

Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I return here the first volume with many thanks. It is very curious reading, but somehow one cannot take it very seriously.'


[Hence follow thirteen lines of mainly negative comments.]

Century: 1900-1945
Date: Between 1 Jan 1919 and 19 Aug 1919
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Wye
county: Kent
specific address: Spring Grove
   
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: Wilfred Scawen Blunt
Title: My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events,1888-1914
Genre: Autobiog / Diary
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: Secker 1919
Provenance: borrowed (other)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28807  
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: 468
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Sydney Cockerell dated 19 August 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. 468, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28807, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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