Evidence: | 'It my be that I failed to understand "The Ascending Effort", but I did not mean to treat Bourne disrespectfully. [But] you will admit that Bourne's writing in its slightly grotesque heaviness made it very difficult to read the whole book in a spirit of impartiality[...].' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | probably England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | probably England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | George Bourne [pseud. of George Sturt] |
Title: | The Ascending Effort |
Genre: | Poetry, Science, Arts / architecture |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Constable 1910 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28947 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
Editor: | Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7, 1920-1922 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 2005 | |
Vol: | 7 | |
Page: | 262 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett, 18 March 1921 Ajaccio. |
Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and J. H. Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 7, 1920-1922 (Cambridge, 2005), 7, p. 262, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28947, accessed: 28 September 2023 |
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