Record Number: 19793
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 7 July 1907: 'My brother sent me The Longest Journey. Don't you think it is an astonishing & irritating production? What a success he will be! For people will think it all so clever. I thought on every other page that he was really going to bring something off, but it all fades away into dim humour & the dimmer ghosts of unrealities. It might have been so magnificent & is a mere formless meandering. The fact is I don't think he knows what reality is, & as for experience the poor man does not realize that practically it does not exist. Still his mind interests me, its curious way of touching on things in the rather precise & charming way in which his hands (I remember) used to touch things vaguely.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jun 1907 and 7 Jul 1907
Country:Ceylon
Timen/a
Place:county: Jaffna (province)
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:25 Nov 1880
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Colonial civil servant
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Ceylon
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Longest Journey
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:19793
Source:n/a
Editor:Frederic Spotts
Title:Letters of Leonard Woolf
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1990
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Page:130
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 130, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19793, accessed: 06 May 2024
Additional Comments:
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