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Record 3138

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..."
Century: 1850-1899
Date: unknown
Country: unknown
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:George Bernard Shaw
Age Unknown
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1856
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Playwright
Religion: atheist
Country of origin: Ireland
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Karl Marx
Title: Das Kapital
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Social Science, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: In French translation.
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3138  
Source - Print  
  Author: Philp Waller
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 2006
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 75
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philp Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (Oxford, 2006), p. 75, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3138, accessed: 28 March 2024

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