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Record 28914

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I read with the greatest pleasure what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made up my mind about his value then, as a writer of remarkable talent for imaginative rendering of the social life of his time, with its activities and interests and incipient thoughts.[ ...] I was considerably impressed with them [The "Palliser" novels] in the early eighties when I chanced upon a novel entitled "Phineas Finn". Haven't seen them since, to tell you the truth [...]'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: Between 1880 and 1885
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
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: Anthony Trollope
Title: Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: First serialised in St. Paul's magazine, October 1867 - May 1869, Book form London: Virtue, 1869 unknown which text Conrad read
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28914  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Conrad
  Editor: Laurence Davies and Gene M. Moore
  Title: The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 8,1923-1924
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 2008
  Vol: 8
  Page: 304
  Additional comments: Letter from Joseph Conrad to Allan Monkhouse (literary critic of the "Manchester Guardian"), 8 February 1924, Oswalds.

Citation: Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and Gene M. Moore (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 8,1923-1924 (Cambridge, 2008), 8, p. 304, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28914, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

See also record ID 27290 for Conrad's reading of Trollope.

 

 

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