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Record Number: 32300


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

And, if it be in your power, bear serenely with imitators. My "Jungle Books" begat zoos of them. but the genius of all the genii was one who wrote a series called "Tarzan of the Apes". I read it, but regret I never saw it on the films, where it rages most successfully.

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1914 and 18 Jan 1936

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:

Rudyard Kipling

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

30 Dec 1865

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

Journalist

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

India Anglo-Indian

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Title:

Tarzan of the Apes

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

32300

Source:

Print

Author:

Rudyard Kipling

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Something of Myself Wordsworth Literary Lives Edition

Place of Publication:

Ware Hertfordshire

Date of Publication:

2008

Vol:

n/a

Page:

120

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Rudyard Kipling, Something of Myself Wordsworth Literary Lives Edition, (Ware Hertfordshire, 2008), p. 120, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32300, accessed: 27 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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