| Evidence: | 'In the vol entitled "Lear of the Steppes" only the first story is really worth reading. The other two ["Acia" and "Faust"] Turg[enev] wrote in French I believe first and they are not good specimens of his art.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1898 and Jan 1910 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | Aldington, Nr Hythe Kent |
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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: | Ivan Turgenev |
| Title: | A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Heinemann 1898, translation by Constance Garnett |
| Provenance: | owned sent by translator's husband |
| Record ID: | 28934 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene Moore and J.H.Stape | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 9, Uncollected Letters 1892-1923 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 2007 | |
| Vol: | 9 | |
| Page: | 141 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Michael Holland dated December 1909-January 1910, Aldington. |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Owen Knowles, Gene Moore and J.H.Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 9, Uncollected Letters 1892-1923 (Cambridge, 2007), 9, p. 141, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28934, accessed: 30 May 2023 | |
| See also record ID 26475. |
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