Record Number: 33613

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'You may as well say, which is a truth, that I do read bi[o]graphy and memoirs. History has a fascination for me. Naval, military, political'. [The following was deleted by Conrad in proof]. 'For instance, favorite books of his are Wallace's "Malay Archipelago," Darwin's "Voyage of a Naturalist," Whymper's "High Andes", the sea yarns of Cooper and Marryat and the novels of Dickens.'

Century:

1850-1899, 1900-1945

Date:

unknown

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Joseph Conrad

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

3 Dec 1857

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry
'Szlachta', or Polish landed gentry/nobility

Occupation:

Master mariner and author

Religion:

Roman Catholic

Country of Origin:

Poland

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Alfred Russel Wallace

Title:

The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature

Genre:

Geography / Travel, Science, Natural history

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Macmillan, 1890.

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33613

Source:

Print

Author:

Joseph Conrad

Editor:

Laurence Davies and J.H. Stape

Title:

The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad vol.7 1920-1922

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

2005

Vol:

7

Page:

447

Additional Comments:

Letter from Conrad to Richard Curle, 5 April 1922, about proofs of Curle's proposed article 'Conrad at Home' for the Daily Mail, 7 April 1922.

Citation:

Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies and J.H. Stape (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad vol.7 1920-1922, (Cambridge, 2005), 7, p. 447, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33613, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

See also ID 28966, recording Conrad reading this book aloud to his younger son John.